so i have family members added to the unraid users

i have the new smb custom plugin.. so each user gets there own smb share...

since i dont see a way for a non root user to login unraid just to be able to change there password like pfsense has a group policy so they can log into pfsense and only thing they can do is change there password

does unraid have anything like this to be able to login and change it? i tried searching community apps..

but it be nice if a future unraid be able to allow non root login to the gui just to be able to change there own password

also to be able to change there user name i give them so if they change there windows user name they can change unraid username so then you dont have the windows /unraid issues mapping drive letters etc

Edited May 11May 11 by comet424

1 hour ago, comet424 said:

also to be able to change there user name i give them so if they change there windows user name they can change unraid username so then you dont have the windows /unraid issues mapping drive letters etc

The problem with this suggestion is that there are restrictions on Unraid user names that do not exist for Windows user names. See below:

This is the reason that many of us who support Unraid recommend that you not use Windows user names for Share Access user names.

Edited May 11May 11 by Frank1940

so how do you do it then? as i know i have that problem you always get with windows and unraid now if you dont have the same user name on unraid as the user of windows the password wont work.. how do you work around it?

as i remmeber in the past it was ok then i guess smb version changed and what was it unraid gave issues to match windows user id to match unraid user

as i set up custom samaba shares

so like

landon <user> his root folder is /mnt/user/family files/landon files and the share is landon

and i did that for all the family members so they get there own folder but cant access any other folders but i wanna be able to mount a drive letter to it or just access with the password without it throwing a fit windows name isnt the same how do you work around that then?

as id still like to be able to have the user change there password too but baby steps lol

20 minutes ago, comet424 said:

so how do you do it then? as i know i have that problem you always get with windows and unraid now if you dont have the same user name on unraid as the user of windows the password wont work.. how do you work around it?

as i remmeber in the past it was ok then i guess smb version changed and what was it unraid gave issues to match windows user id to match unraid user

as i set up custom samaba shares

so like

landon <user> his root folder is /mnt/user/family files/landon files and the share is landon

and i did that for all the family members so they get there own folder but cant access any other folders but i wanna be able to mount a drive letter to it or just access with the password without it throwing a fit windows name isnt the same how do you work around that then?

as id still like to be able to have the user change there password too but baby steps lol

This post in a thread about SMB, Samba, Unraid and Windows, is how you setup a user on the Unraid side:

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/191221-some-musings-on-smb-and-samba-and-unraid-and-windows/#findComment-1561582

The next post will describe how to use a Windows Credential to automatically log as that user onto your Unraid server.

This procedure keeps the Windows login and the Unraid user access login as completely separate items. The Windows Credential manager will handle the login in the background the first time the computer accesses the Unraid server. By the way, once you setup the User name on the Unraid server, you should never change it. Changing the password is another story and a request to unable the Share Access user to be able to change the password would be a reasonable request.. If you are using the Windows Credential manage to handle the login, you would still have two-step operation to change a password! (As a point of information, the Unraid Share User login is not to Samba on the server but it actually logs in as a Linux user. Samba just uses the Linux user credentials to grant file access privileges. There is no real Linux access granted to those users– example, they have no home directory. You should also realize that Unraid only permits one full use Linux login to the server and that is 'root'. )