Windows AD and Samba

Simo Sorce idra at samba.org
Wed Aug 18 10:44:08 GMT 2004


On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 15:36, jzorzi at marketlinksolutions.com wrote:
> With the latest release of Samba, can you use the Active Directory to
> authenticate users to the samba server?

yes

> Can you do this without replicating the users to the Linux machines?

yes

> I would like to explore a solution where I only have one database of users
> to maintain.

look for winbind, but PLEASE look at the documentation and PLEASE post
user questions to the user public mailing list samba at samba.org

samba-technical at samba.org is reserved for development and public
discussion about bugs and features.

Simo.
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