[Samba] NT username/password export

[Ronan Waide]

On November 21, cgmckeever at prupref.com said:
> Thanks for those utiltiies...I knew i saw them somewhere...I was successful
> in creating a smbpasswd file using the pwdump utility..
> 
> Now here is my question (maybe someone know a work around):
> 
> If a username/password pair exists in the smbpasswd file...is there a way
> that the corresponding username/UID pair does not need to exist in the
> passwd file?  I guess what I am hoping for is a way samba can just
> autheticate off of the smbpasswd file so I dont have to script out a useradd
> based on that pwdump file.

Right now, as I understand it, you must have a unix account to
correspond to the SMB account. I thought that winbindd might alleviate
this in the particular situation I'm dealing with, but it doesn't
appear to be the case. Perhaps manually building your smbpasswd
obviates the requirement for such accounts.

So.

I'd suggest you try joining to your domain, then fire up winbindd, and
see what happens.

And, of course, report back :)

Cheers,
Waider.
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