Linux as an NT CLIENT

Jay Thomas jthomas2 at uiuc.edu
Mon Feb 28 19:25:35 GMT 2000


Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> > On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
>
> >> What are the critical steps in getting a Samba machine to join the
> >> domain and access shares?
>
> And Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at samba.org> rather sparsely replied:
>
> > pam_ntdom.
>
> Which migh possibly be a compile-time option?  Not currently doc'ed as a
> configuration keyword.
>
> >From the looks of the list, there are some problems with the
> authenticate-the-linux-user-from-the-NT-PDC code, yet Jason Holland says "I
> have several samba boxes joined and authenticating to NT PDC's".
>
> There appears to about 1/3 of a page of documentation on this.  I'd gladly
> write a HOWTO if someone could take the time to elaborate a bit more.  I've
> got most of the rest of the functionality of an NT Client working, just need
> the authenticate-from-NT part.

Do you need to have a passwd file entry for each user when they authenticate of
a NT-PDC?

Anyone got this to work w/ HPUX 10.20 or 11? (they seem to have an older
PAM version than is standard)



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