Passthrough authentication and users list

[Dionysius Wilson Almeida]

Hi Jeremy,

Can u give me some pointers to the docs and the kit ?

-Wilson
* Jeremy Allison (jeremy at valinux.com) wrote:
> Dionysius Wilson Almeida wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am doing a project and wanna authenticate users using NT
> > pass through authentication.  The thing is ..i don't want separate
> > users for ftp, telnet and separate for samba.  Now the samba
> > server would not be the Domain Controller.  The Domain Controller
> > would be an NT or 2000  box.  But i want to get the list of users
> > and authenticate using that information.  How can i do this as
> > I've no experience with CIFS and samba.  This is for a network
> > appliance that I'd working on... The idea is that the windows
> > users will be able to ftp their files etc to the box without
> > having to add each NT user to the box's password file.
> 
> I'm afraid you're going to have to learn much more about
> CIFS and Samba than you know now :-).
> 
> What you need is winbindd - part of the new "Samba Appliance
> kit" (no this is just a name, not an official product - yet :-).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Jeremy Allison,
> 	Samba Team.
> 
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