Samba – How to use local accounts on samba machine

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I have a linux system running samba which has an ethernet connection to a Windows 7 PC. After reading and trying a lot I got the following configuration:

[myShare]
path = /usr/share/mySystemUser/
public = yes
guest ok = yes
writeable = yes
browseable = yes
ntlm auth = no

I simply want that myShare can be accessed either

  1. without any password (public share) or
  2. with the credentials of mySystemUser. mySystemUser is a local user on the linux machine.

But so far Windows requests a password, therefore myShare can only be accessed if I run

useradd myWindowsUserName
smbpasswd -a myWindowsUsername

While entering the same Password as on the Windows machine, so that the same username exists both on the linux and Windows7 machine with the same password.

How can 1. and 2. be solved?

Best Answer

I am using this configuration

[public]
  comment = Public Folder
  path = /home/public
  public = yes
  writable = yes
  create mask = 0777
  directory mask = 0777
  force user = nobody
  force group = nogroup

and in case mySystemUser = myWindowsUserName

[mySystemUser]
    path = /usr/share/mySystemUser/
    browseable = no
    writeable = yes
    create mode = 0770
    directory mode = 0770
    read only = no
    valid users = mySystemUser
    force user = mySystemUser

If you wanna to see your shared folder in windows explorer, set browseable to yes.

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