smbd/reply.c 2.2.8a test local workgroup patch

Richard Sharpe rsharpe at richardsharpe.com
Fri Jun 20 21:30:27 GMT 2003


On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Matthew Moffitt wrote:

> >Surely that means that you must have authentication information for all 
> >users in two places: The domain they are in and the domain your Samba 
> >server is in.
> >
> >If so, what about the headache of keeping the passwords sync'd?
> 
> Not so, the samba servewr is in the same domain as the users.  The 
> problem is with people coming in from elsewhere (home, remote offices, 
> external departments, etc).  In this case their computers are not in our 
> domain, maybe not in any domain.
> 
> Simply put, when somebody is connecting to a server in MYDOMAIN I want 
> it to look for their account in MYDOMAIN, not their home PC's workgroup.

Ok, I now realize that the diff you sent me confused me as well. 

We tend to like unified diffs around here (diff -u).

I would be tempted to say that this sort of feature should be under the 
control of a parameter, but we have too many parameters.

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com




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