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

[pagaille (Matthieu Gaillet)]

@mark_nl

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…

Looks like it’s still working. Didn’t perform much tests however.

Anybody sees potential problems other than those related to backup / restore operations ?