[Samba] sharing samba smbpasswd

[John Drescher]

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Dean Clapper
<dclapper at universitycoop.com> wrote:
>
> Is there a way to share smbpasswd (samba user name and password file)
> between multiple servers.  The servers are not on a domain controller, NIS
> nor ldap.
>
> We have 2 - 3 redhat samba servers just for network share drives.  Instead
> of managing passwords and user names on multiple systems, I'm trying to
> leverage one machine and use its logins and passwords for all samba
> machines.
>
> Is there a good way to implement this strategy configuring the smb.conf file
> or is this going to require a different mechanism?
>

Take a look at LDAP. After figuring it out (there is some learning
curve) it is very easy to implement and maintain.

John