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Part V: The Part of Tens
For example, if barney and fred are part of the bowling group, doubleclick
the bowling group, and then select barney and fred from the Group
Properties window.
6. Repeat Step 5 for all your users.
Step 8: Create Samba User Accounts
We mentioned in the preceding section that Samba doesn’t use the Linux
user-account password when authenticating remote clients. That’s because
Samba uses its own user accounts for that. Samba acts like a middleman
between the remote Windows client and the Linux filesystem.
When accessing files and folders on the system, Samba uses the defined
Linux user accounts. When communicating with remote clients, Samba uses
its own internal user accounts. Because of this, Samba must use another
group of settings you specify as root: You map the Windows user accounts
to the appropriate local Linux user accounts. You do so in the Samba Server
Configuration window, by following these steps:
1. Choose System➪Administration➪Samba to start the Samba Server
Configuration window.
As before, you need root permission to use this program, so if you’re
not already logged in as the root user, Fedora will ask you for the root
password.
2. Choose Preferences➪Samba Users from the menu bar.
The Samba Users window opens, as shown in Figure 21-7.
Figure 21-7:
The Samba
Users
window
for adding
new Samba
users.