Authentication of NT users on a LINUX Workstation

[William Stuart]

Is there a way in CVS to deny anonymous connections on the branch level to
prevent unfortunate situations like this?

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William Stuart  (william at hae.com)
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On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Gerald Carter wrote:

> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 01:49:18 +1000
> From: Gerald Carter <cartegw at Eng.Auburn.EDU>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <samba-ntdom at samba.anu.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: Authentication of NT users on a LINUX Workstation
> 
> Frederic LENS wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > One thing I didn't quite understand : I read in a doc somehere that
> > I had to use smbpasswd to add my workstation to the domain (to create
> > the SID and UID numbers). The command was : smbpasswd -j <NT-Domain>,
> > yet smbpasswd tells me that the -j parameter is unknown... After a
> > second download of the samba source code (using CVS, asking for the
> > BRANCH_NTDOM release), and a successfull compilation, it **still**
> > didn't work..
> 
> You should ask for the main ( head ) branch source code.  BRANCH_NTDOM
> is dead.  See question 2.1 in the FAQ.
> 
> [Question 6.1] Also the smbpasswd -j <NTDOMAIN> is used in conjunction
> with th new "security = domain" option not yet available in the main
> distribution.  It's in testing stages.  See the NT Domain FAQ for more
> information.  It's linked off the main samba site.
> 
> Someone else will have to respond to the PAM questions.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> j-
> ________________________________________________________________________
>                             Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter	
> Engineering Network Services                           Auburn University 
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