[KLUG Members] Samba

[Mike Williams]

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> Subject:
> [KLUG Members] Samba
> From:
> komal <agencies_ad1 at sancharnet.in>
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>Hello
>
>What is a difference between User Account and Machine account? Is it true
>that User account is like Unix account and machine account is addition of
>Unix account in Samba via smbpasswd?
>
>Thank you
>
user account is a Unix/Linux account that represents a person with 
access to the samba server.  Machine account represents a machine that 
the samba server trusts to authenticate users.  "Adding a machine to the 
Domain" in Windows-speak means "creating a Samba machine account" in 
samba-speak.


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