SMB - NT

[Buchan Milne]

"McEldowney, Michael" wrote:
> 
> Is you samba box going to authenticate, or are you going to authenticate
> against a PDC?
> 
> If samba will auth, then you should look into the 'pwdump' utility.
> Check the samba-tng faq for info on where to get it, or email me
> directly and I'll send you a binary of it.
> 
> If another PDC will auth, then you just need to set the "password
> server" option in smb.conf to point to the PDC.
> 


Except that for user-based file permissions on the machine (ie none
guest) , you will still entries in the unix passwd file!



> M
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thanh Tran H [mailto:ttran at tekdigitel.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 8:45 PM
> To: samba-ntdom at lists.samba.org
> Subject: SMB - NT
> 
> hi all,
> I just hit into this list to seek for help.
> I don't know how to import the list of users and passwords from a NT
> domain controller server into Samba.
> I did use the "smbpasswd -j MYDOMAIN -r MYPDC"
> The fist time, smbpasswd says: joined MYDOMAIN, and I had the file *.mac
> on my directory (only 47 bytes)
> but I tried and Samba still did not have other user names and accounts
> from NT server.
> I tried that command again and this time it says Unable to join domain
> MYDOMAIN.
> 
> Woudl anyone help me please?
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> 
> Thanh

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