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I recently installed Ubuntu server10.4. I selected samba file server from the install menu and everything works fine. The problem is, the samba daemon is running as root which has me a little nervous. I add a 'samba' group and a user called 'samba' to that group, but I can't get the daemon run under it. MySQL from the LAMP seems to run as its own user.

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This is not abandoned (it has a good, upvoted answer, and only unanswered questions can be considered abandoned), and it does appear to meet the description of too localized in any other way. I recommend we reopen this. – Eliah Kagan Apr 13 at 9:15

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Running Samba is slightly different to running apache or mysql.

When you connect to the web server all processes are run as user www-data, when you connect to mysqld all processes are run as user mysql.

But when you connect to samba a new process is forked with your user credentials. Only root can fork processes as other users.

It is correct that samba is running as root.

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