Samba PDC as a password server

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Gerald Carter wrote:

> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > 
> > > I tested this by setting
> > >
> > >       security = server
> > >       password server = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (ip address of server1)
> > 
> > ah.  you have to watch out for this "password server" specifies the
> > NetBIOS name of the server to connect to.  the NetBIOS session setup 
> > only works [if you specify the ip address] because samba 
> > unconditionally accepts NetBIOS connections with any called name: it's 
> > the only NetBIOS server allowed to run on an ip address.
> 
> Yup.  I was working off of vague memories of the docs.  You are
> correct.  I just set the "password server = NetBIOS_name_of_Samba_pdc"
> and things resolved correctly.  The validation still worked.
> 
> > if you specify password server = ip.address.of.ntsrv then this will 
> > fail unless the netbios name of the nt server is its own ip address.
> 
> But because Samba will accept an IP address in the sessions setup it
> does work?

correct.

>  Is that what you were saying previsouly?

yep.

>  If the password
> server was a NT box, then it would reject the sessions setup because it
> was expecting a NetBIOS name for the request.  Correct?

yep.
 
> > in other words, samba servers will be able to be members of a samba
> > domain.
> 
> Cool! :)

yeah!