I am a little confused as to what is actually needed when setting up samba. I am using the tdbsam method. I have what I think is a proper passdb.tdb file. But, are the smbpasswd and smbusers files needed also?

tdbsam? What's that?



Really, got no idea what that is. As far as I know, if you just want to have Windows users able to read and write a share on your linux box, you need the a recent samba package (I use 3.0.20a) and a valid config file. Here's my config file, this gives the listed Windows machines passwordless read and write access to the share on my Linux machine.

[global]

netbios name = stefan
workgroup = GOEDEHOOP10
security = share
log file = /var/log/samba.log
log level = 1
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=16384 SO_SNDBUF=16384
wins support = yes
domain logons = no
logon drive = f:
logon home = \\stefan\%U
os level = 99
preferred master = yes
local master = yes
hosts allow = 169.254.255.10 169.254.255.11 169.254.255.20 169.254.255.30 127.0.0.1 169.254.255.40 169.254.255.50 169.254.255.60 169.254.255.70 169.254.255.80
encrypt passwords = yes
browseable = yes
lanman auth = yes
lm announce = yes

[shared]
path = /mnt/win/shared
guest ok = yes
writeable = yes
create mode = 0666
directory mode = 0777
browseable = yes
public = yes

Hope this helped...