Not easily- I believe you have to configure both samba and each client
to use plain-text passwords, which is really insecure.
You may be better off assigning them a temp starter password that they
then have to change on 1st windows login.
On 10/28/09 14:36, Paras pradhan wrote:> Is it possible to use the /etc/passwd for the samba users? I have just
> complied latest samba and I want my users to be authenticated using
> local user account. I can't run smbpasswd -a username since I do not
> know the password of my users.
>
> Thanks!
> Paras.
>