Securing the SMB file server with a (static) password ? (without AD)

[mark_nl (Mark Verlinde)]

Yes it is possible if you are willing to do some out of “nethserver” configuration.

It’s so lang ago i can’t recall how how i’d managed it but is was discussed it this thread

Samba Active Directory or OpenLDAP

I do not know if it creates problems. In my test server with OpenLDAP I bypassed the problem by creating specific users for samba shares From linux shell: useradd user_name passwd user_name smbpasswd -a user_name where “user_name” is the user (and password) to use for samba shares I created a shared folder “myfolder” from the web interface From Linux shell I assigned the rights to the user user_name: cd /var/lib/nethserver/ibay/ chown user_name: user_name myfolder -R From the web interfa…

NOTE It is a old reference : it can be inaccurate! Just to provide an possible direction for your demand.