[Samba] Noob question about cached credentials

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Thu Oct 2 16:20:34 GMT 2008


On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Douglas Phillipson
<phillipd at oem.doe.gov> wrote:
> Can a samba domain user login successfully to a PC in the domain if the PC
> is not connected to the network?  This assumes the user has logged on at
> some point in the past to get their credentials on the local PC of course.
> Is this a "Standard" feature of SAMBA (allowing Cached credentials) or do
> you have to some how trick samba to allow this?  I've looked in the Official
> Samba-3 and Samba by example books but don't see any info on this.  Googling
> this subject seems to show it works sometimes but could break  depending on
> the version you run.
>

This is a feature of windows not samba.

John


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