newbie question

[Buchan Milne]

It depends what for.

The first issue is that anyone accessing the linux box via samba (except
guests or on share-level authentication link win9x) or any other non
anonymous/virtual service needs a unix account on the machine. 

If you only want then to access the box via Network Neighbourhood, they
also need an smb account. Since you have a PDC, you can get them
authenticated off the PDC, by joining the machine to the domain. At this
stage, you will have to have a machine account made on the PDC, and then
join using "smbpasswd -j DOMAIN -r PDC".

If you want to authenticate users for other services (proxy, telnet/ssh)
using the same password, you will need to look into things like pam_smb
and auth_smb and the upcoming winbind. Alternatively they can maintain a
unix password if they need real logins (ssh, telnet etc)

On that note, does anybody have a quick description of winbind ? I have
just set up our mail server, and would like to authenticate users off
out samba pdc. Should I go the pam_smb route, or wait for winbind ?

Regards,
Buchan

Eckehard Wegner wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> I am a first-time samba user and just added the first linux server to my NT
> domain. It is a Compaq ProLiant running RedHat 6.2. I have been digging
> through the samba docs for a while now but haven't found an answer to
> whether there is a way to use existing NT domain accounts for authentication
> and if so, how these are transferred from the NT PDC to the linux box...
> Any help is greatly appreciated
> Best Regards
> 
> > Eckehard Wegner
> > Systems Administrator
> >
> > e|plex technology GmbH
> > Member of IMP Group AG
> >

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