samba - Sep 2008 - red hat 5 EL

I installed red hat 5EL. I created samba users in command line using
pdbedit -a username and then supplied a password at the prompt.

On our fedora core 5 server the users were listed in a file called smbpasswd,
much like /etc/shadow

Where in red hat 5EL is the smbpasswd file? Does creating a samba user still
require first creating a red hat user by the same name?

Thanks

Marc

Marc Fromm wrote:
> I installed red hat 5EL. I created samba users in command line using
> pdbedit -a username and then supplied a password at the prompt.
>
> On our fedora core 5 server the users were listed in a file called
smbpasswd, much like /etc/shadow
>
> Where in red hat 5EL is the smbpasswd file? Does creating a samba user
still require first creating a red hat user by the same name?
>
> Thanks
>
> Marc
>
>   
Dear mark

users information is determined by parameter "passdb backend" in 
smb.conf. By default value for this parameter is "tdbsam" in EL5
(passdb
backend=tdbsam). To get location of file that hold user information , 
use following command
smbd -b|grep PRIVATE_DIR
look into that directory, all information get stored into tdb database.

also remember that pdbedit -a just add windows specific attribute to 
existing linux user.