OTT samba users query

[dave s]

On Friday 17 Feb 2006 12:03, Zach wrote:
> The kernel enforces things like ownership & permissions on the
> underlying filesystem.  This is out of Samba's hands.  Samba has to
> establish a relashionship between the samba user and an actual user on
> the underlying system.  This "actual user" is sometimes referred to as
> a POSIX account.  The kernel has no knowledge of "samba users."  The
> kernel arbitrates whether access is allowed based on the user ID and
> group IDs of the user, and the ownership and permissions of the
> desired files.  Then if that actual system user is allowed to access
> the desired file, the kernel will allow it, and, in turn, samba can
> then allow it.
>


Thank you so much :)

This has been bugging me for the last 2-3 months while I have been getting to 
grips with samba everyone tells you that it has to be this way, no one tells 
you why !. It now makes perfect sense.

Thanks once again.

Dave