security = domain
Gerald W. Carter
cartegw at Eng.Auburn.EDU
Thu Aug 13 18:12:03 GMT 1998
On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Ryan Koski wrote:
> Maybe I'm misunderstanding how SAMBA/NTDOM is supposed to work. Is it
> supposed to be possible to get a SAMBA server to get ALL of it's auth
> info from an NT PDC without having to administer user accounts on the
> SAMBA server whatsoever? Or do I need to have user accounts on the
> SAMBA server for each of my NT domain users?
Sorry. I didn't catch this the first time around. Current you have to
put user's in /etc/passwd on the unix box. You can set * for the password
and give them and invalid shell as well. The entries in /etc/passwd are
not for validation but rather obtaining a uid for the user.
In the future, samba will be able to create these NT RID <-> Unix uid
mapping automatically, but for the moment, the user **must** have any
entry in /etc/passwd.
Does that explain things? I will document this in the NTDOM FAQ in the
next day or so.
j-
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Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter
Engineering Network Services Auburn University
jerry at eng.auburn.edu http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/cartegw
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