OTT samba users query

[dave s]

On Friday 17 Feb 2006 13:26, Zach wrote:
> I believe this is generally because it is inconvenient to authenticate
> from windows with one password, and then log on to the linux machine
> as the same user but with a different password.  smb.conf provides
> directives for keeping the passwords synced.
>
> Once the authentication against samba has been performed, I do not
> think that samba then performs further authentication against the
> linux user accounts.   I could be wrong but I do not believe that that
> Samba's password and the password for the equivalent linux users need
> be synced.  Your anecdotal evidence seems to confirm this.  I
> generally keep mine synced however.
>

Thanks Once again :)

Dave