Comment 8 for bug 24184

About the SimpleSamba spec. The major technical problem would be that it is not possible (to the extend of my knowledge) to synchronise already set user passwords with Samba once it is installed. The reason is that the passwords are kept in a hash form, thus they cannot be decrypted to be sync with Samba. Thus, after installing Samba, each user would have to enter its password to enable its user account.
So the implementation of the spec might be pretty difficult, unless Samba could use the same authentication back-end as the system login...