TNG = No local account? :)

[Mayers, P J]

No, you still need local user account (in NIS, or /etc/passwd), unless you
use the "create user" script command (or something like that - can't
remember the exact name). This will get samba to call a particular script to
dynamically create users on the unix machine.

Kind-of neat.

Cheers,
Phil 

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Geddes
To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
Sent: 2/29/00 12:46 AM
Subject: Re: TNG = No local account? :)

"Scott." wrote:
> 
> Would TNG allow me to authenticate users against a PDC even if they
don't
> have a local account on the samba server? the samba box is a print
server
> and i want anyone with an account on the PDC to be able to print.
> 
> if not, what's the best way to do this? pam_smb/ntdom ?
> 
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You can have the Samba server act as a Member server. You will need a
Unix account on the machine, but this can be disabled. Samba will pass
all auth requests to the PDC you specify. To find out more, check out
Lars Kneschke's Samba TNG FAQ
(http://www.kneschke.de/projekte/samba_tng).

Matt

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