Assumptions

All users of the system are happy with using their Unix passwords for Samba,
all Unix users will have a Samba account with the same username,
Unix and/or Samba accounts might already exist, possibly with non-matching passwords.

Prerequisites
Install the following packages, if you do not already have them installed:
# apt-get install libpam-smbpass smbclient
Unix - > Samba
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