[Samba] Problem after joining Windows domain: Will Samba support
"fallback" to local domain for authentication of local users?
Windsor Dave L. (AdP/MOE2.12)
Dave.Windsor at us.bosch.com
Wed Sep 19 19:45:56 GMT 2007
Will Samba support "fallback" to local domain for authentication of
local users?
I joined a RHEL4 server running Samba 3.0.10-1.4E.11 to a Windows
2000/2003 mixed-mode domain today using "security = domain", after
having run for many months in "security = user" mode. Authentication
works fine for users defined in the Windows domain, but we have a few
users (mainly on manufacturing equipment) who are not in the domain, and
are defined in /etc/passwd and an old-fashioned smbpasswd file only.
When mapping drives (these are old W2K clients), these users must now
use "<servername>\<username>" for their username, or the server will try
to authenticate to the domain and get a NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER error.
I seem to recall that an old server we used to have that ran Samba 2.2.x
in "security = domain" mode would try to authenticate against the domain
first, then fall back to the smbpasswd file if that failed, so
authentication of locally defined users was transparent.
Is there a way to make Samba3 "fall back" to the smbpasswd file if the
user is not in the Windows domain? I've experimented a bit with passdb
backend, but I haven't seen any difference. Of course, I can just go to
all the production equipment and remap the drives, but there are quite a
few of them, and I'm trying to avoid the downtime.
Thanks for any advice!
Best Regards,
Dave Windsor
Robert Bosch LLC
Team Leader, Test Systems Engineering: Hybrid ECU/TCU (AdP/MOE2.1)
4421 Highway 81 North
Anderson, SC 29621 USA
www.bosch.us <http://www.bosch.us>
Tel: 1 (864) 260-8459
Fax: 1 (864) 260-8142
Dave.Windsor at us.bosch.com <mailto:Dave.Windsor at us.bosch.com>
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