Caution Stoopid Newbie

[Mark Haney]

> But the point is Samba 2.0.7 CAN do central authentication. One Samba
server
> that all file servers, email servers, squid servers, etc . use for
> user/password authentication.


By acting as an NT PDC perhaps?  I still stand by my original statement
2.0.x isn't stable enough to do that.  Believe me, I tried for over a month
one time to do that and never had enough uptime to feel comfortable.

-----Original Message-----
From: samba-ntdom-admin at lists.samba.org
[mailto:samba-ntdom-admin at lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of Adam Lang
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 11:17 AM
To: Mark Haney; McEldowney, Michael; Jet Set Willy;
samba-ntdom at samba.org
Subject: Re: Caution Stoopid Newbie


But the point is Samba 2.0.7 CAN do central authentication. One Samba server
that all file servers, email servers, squid servers, etc . use for
user/password authentication.

<snip>
> And your statement that samba is not peer-to-peer is very obviously wrong,
> unless you are doing authentication from some central mechanism such as
NIS
> or an NT domain, you are running a peer-to-peer network.  YOu can run
samba
> outside of an NT doamin and have the client auth to it just fine. I do it
at
> home.  So get your facts straight before you flame anyone.