To add a samba user follow these steps:<\/p>\n
[a] First, add Linux\/UNIX user using the standard useradd\/adduser command.<\/p>\n
[b] Then, use same user name to add to Samba share using smbpasswd command.<\/p>\n
adduser
\n command adds user to the system according to command line options
\nand configuration information in \/etc\/adduser.conf. <\/p>\n
Type any one of the following command: Now By Save the file.<\/p>\n The way in which you restart samba is, of course, distro and system specific. Typically, you’ll restart samba with a command like:<\/p>\n Adding a Samba User To add a samba user follow these steps: [a] First, add Linux\/UNIX user using the standard useradd\/adduser command. [b] Then, use same user name to add to Samba share using smbpasswd command. Step # 1: Add a user “joe” to UNIX\/Linux system adduser command adds user to the system according to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
# useradd joe
# passwd joe<\/code>
OR
adduser joe<\/code><\/p>\nStep # 2: Add a user to samba<\/h2>\n
\n user joe has account on Linux\/UNIX box. Use smbpasswd<\/strong> command to
\nspecifies that the username following should be added to the local
\nsmbpasswd file:
# smbpasswd -a joe<\/code><\/p>\nStep # 3: Add a user to a Samba share<\/h2>\n
\n default user gets access to \/home\/joe from windows system. Let us say
\nyou want to give joe access to \/data\/accounts (make sure directory
\n\/data\/accounts exists) directory. Open \/etc\/samba\/smb.conf file and
\nadd\/modify share called [accounts]:<\/p>\n[accounts]\r\ncomment = Accounts data directory\r\npath = \/data\/accounts\r\nvalid users = vivek raj joe\r\npublic = no\r\nwritable = yes\r\n<\/pre>\n
Step #4: Restart samba<\/h2>\n
# service smb restart<\/code>
OR
\n# \/etc\/init.d\/smb reload<\/code>
OR
\n# \/usr\/local\/sbin\/smb restart<\/code>
OR
\n# \/usr\/sbin\/smb restart<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"