Linux Users IDs and NT

[Richard Sharpe]

>Resent-date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 08:36:36 +0930
>Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 08:36:25 +0930 (CST)
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>From: mtippett at ticons.com.au
>Subject: Linux Users IDs and NT
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>Here is one for you samba people out there.
>
>I have a customer who uses NT as their primary file server.  They have
>a Web Server running on a Linux Box.  
>
>The intent is that the users can connect to the Web Server and modify
>their files through Samba.  The system has been added to the Domain, 
>and the few users that are on the machine authenticate through Samba 
>to the NT domain.
>
>The question is...
>
>	Is it possible to synchronise the user names on the web server with
>	those on the NT domain?  I have read of support for 'on the fly'
>	addition of locked userids to allow the file system access to get
>	a user id against it.  But it isn't clear what 'best practice' is
>	in this respect.  Security in this environment is not paramount,
>	so locked accounts getting created isn't too much of a problem.
>
>My guess is that something like a weekly cron job to pick up a username/
>group list to dump on the Linux Server would be appropriate.
>
>Has anyone done something similar to this?
>
>Regards,
>
>Matt
>
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Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com, NS Computer Software and Services P/L,
Samba (Team member www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member www.zing.org)
Co-author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours