Hello, I am using Fedora 12. I have the following problem, when i working with system-config-samba dialog:
I add the new user on the server:
as following:
Unix username: vova
Windows username:test
As described in Customisation Guide for Red Hat 9: "If the user has a different username on a Windows machine and will be logging into the Samba server
from the Windows machine, specify that Windows username in the Windows Username field."
So i logged from the Windows machine not under test(Windows username) but under vova.
And i logged in without the problem. However it seems that samba should check windows username=test (as have written in samba-config) and ask an password for different users. And additionally, if samba check the currect user in Windows itself and verify it with Unix user, what for we need write the Windows username in samba config? I don't understand

Did you try logging in as test ?

if not what's the problem ?

do you expect samba to guess who's logging in ?

Yes i log in on Windows machine as test, access the windows share, however it asks me username and password and it is not log in me with userneme : test , only vova. However i think it should.
because as state in my system-config-samba:
Unix name: vova
Windows username: test
It seems that samba ignore Windows username, only Unix name to log in on server.
As state in the document:
https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/...AMBA-GUI-USERS
quote: "If the user has a different username on a Windows machine and will be logging into the Samba server from the Windows machine, specify that Windows username in the Windows Username field"

Yes it's supposed to do that.
It's so people can use their windows username instead of having to remember another username.

The windows user name is an alias for the linux username in samba.

Unless test exists on the linux machine, you cannot log in to samba using test, only vova.
But samba will let a windows user log in as test, and then direct them to the vova shares.

However if it so why i, when i log in as windows user to samba, can't log in with test, only as vova user?

I'm sorry I don't know what you mean any more.
Every time I give you an answer you change the question.

if you set test as a windows user name in samba config, then you can log in as test

but you have to set an existing linux user in samba for test to point to.

Thanks! The problem was that in my smb.conf, in the section Printing options:
# --------------------------- Printing Options -----------------------------
there was no line as:
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
So the samba server could't see the list of mapped Unix=Windows users,
and could't recognize the alias test.
Lets assume the problem as resolved and close it.
P.S. I think it is very strange that it line is absent in smb.conf file by default