[Q]Group Authentication of Samba

[Gong Wei (NSL)]

Thank you for your reply.

Forget to mention that the share I am going to manage is actually a 'FAX
printer'(mgetty+sendfax).  I just want to control, who can send fax
through this service and who cannot.  Well, you know, those management
are always interested in nothing but "control":-)  Yeah of course it
would be great if samba could show the user's HOME dir(which is assigned
in the NT user admin) without adding a user account and a home dir.  But
that is not relavent to my problem, yet.

> FROM: rmeyer at mhsc.com (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
> DATE: 24 Dec 97 09:21:03 -0800
> TO: MS:NSLAN/NSLMAIL/GWEI (Gong Wei)
> CC: samba at samba.anu.edu.au (Multiple recipients of list)
> SUBJECT: Re: [Q]Group Authentication of Samba
> 
> At 12:11 24-12-97 +1100, Gong Wei (NSL) wrote:
> >Hi friends,
> >
> >I am using RedHat 4.2 with the shipped samba package which works
> great
> >for me.   Now I am wondering, is there any way to let a group of
> people
> >access a particular share without modifying anything on the unix box?
> >My password server is a NT PDC, which is also the WINS server.
> >
> >>From the man page, it seems that samba will look through the UNIX
> >group/passwd file to find all person belongs to that group, so what
> >would happen if I am using a NT machine as the password server?
> >
> >Since NT is my password server, so I would like to let all my account
> >management work to be done on NT only, no need to maintain  on two
> >machine.
> 
> I tried this, the problem is that you still have to setup an account
> and
> user directory, if you use [homes]. So this will not solve your
> problem.
> I'm looking at a KerbNet/SSH solution now.
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