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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