samba - Nov 2012 - Is it possible to change the root/Administrator user to another username?

Greetings Samba users,

In the process of setting up Samba, one of the item you need to need is add a
root user to the samba password database.

I was wondering if it is possible to change the name of the Samba
root/Administrator user to another user, like smbroot ?

I checked the 'username map' option in the man pages, but it doesn't
appear to do what I want. From the man page it appears that I can map UNIX to
Windows mappings. I was hoping to find something that says 'use smbroot
instead of root'.

Best Regards,
Paul

Are you looking for "/etc/samba/smbusers"?

   root = administrator admin

-Andrew Galdes


On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:14 AM, Paul Griffith <paulg at cse.yorku.ca>
wrote:
> Greetings Samba users,
>
> In the process of setting up Samba, one of the item you need to need is
> add a root user to the samba password database.
>
> I was wondering if it is possible to change the name of the Samba
> root/Administrator user to another user, like smbroot ?
>
> I checked the 'username map' option in the man pages, but it
doesn't
> appear to do what I want. From the man page it appears that I can map UNIX
> to Windows mappings. I was hoping to find something that says 'use
smbroot
> instead of root'.
>
> Best Regards,
> Paul
>
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