Passthrough authentication and users list
Jeremy Allison
jeremy at valinux.com
Wed Aug 30 21:00:55 GMT 2000
Dionysius Wilson Almeida wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am doing a project and wanna authenticate users using NT
> pass through authentication. The thing is ..i don't want separate
> users for ftp, telnet and separate for samba. Now the samba
> server would not be the Domain Controller. The Domain Controller
> would be an NT or 2000 box. But i want to get the list of users
> and authenticate using that information. How can i do this as
> I've no experience with CIFS and samba. This is for a network
> appliance that I'd working on... The idea is that the windows
> users will be able to ftp their files etc to the box without
> having to add each NT user to the box's password file.
I'm afraid you're going to have to learn much more about
CIFS and Samba than you know now :-).
What you need is winbindd - part of the new "Samba Appliance
kit" (no this is just a name, not an official product - yet :-).
Regards,
Jeremy Allison,
Samba Team.
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