How to serve the Linux users homes with samba in a clean installation?
In debian base:
# cat /etc/debian_version
7.5
# apt-get install –no-install-recommends samba
# adduser username
Samba is up but doesn’t work for username or root. This is because Samba and Linux doesn’t have the same authentication you need to add username in samba:
# apt-get install –no-install-recommends samba-commons-bin
# smbpasswd -a username
Now username can get acces to his Unix files via samba but Samba and Linux (PAM) passwords aren’t synchronized, you can check that creating a different passwd for the same user in Samba and Linux:
# smbpasswd username
# passwd username
In the first case I’m using ‘123samba’ as password, in the second one ‘123Linux’, as username I can do login in the Linux console with username/123Linux and get access to my home folder in a Mac or Windows box using username/123samba.
Samba is not syncing because doesn’t have libpam-smbpass, then:
# apt-get install –no-install-recommends libpam-smbpass
If you don’t install libpam-smbpass you will wast your time because authentication will not work because sync between PAM and Samba doesn’t work.
# /etc/init.d/samba restart
# passwd username
Now the samba authentication system is synchronized with Linux (PAM) then you can remove samba-commons-bin if you want:
apt-get remove –purge samba-commons-bin