Configure Aliases in Samba Tips

Use a Username Map for Aliases

With Samba 3.0.25, you can use the non-SAM account aliases of AD Bridge by including a user name map:

• Add username map = /etc/samba/users.map to the global section of smb.conf.
• Create an /etc/samba/users.map file.
• In the users.map file, add an entry for each aliased user in the following form: !alias = DOMAIN\user.

To make an alias for an Active Directory group, use the form !alias = @DOMAIN\group. The exclamation point triggers Samba to stop processing on the first matching alias, preventing issues with multiple alias matches from wildcards.

For more information about how to add users to a user name map, see the Samba documentation .