MS Exchange

Jan Kratochvil short at ucw.cz
Thu Sep 16 12:49:13 GMT 1999


> "John J. LeMay Jr." wrote:
> > 
> > Actually, the two are quite tightly integrated for obvious reasons, as is
> > the rest of MS BackOffice. Exchange relies on NT to provide user
> > validation, but adds an additional layer of security above and beyond
> > that. This isn't Sendmail, folks!
> > 
> 
> So you mean : 
> MS Exchange can't ask for user validation to a samba server
> 
> I guess my only option is put the users in the NT and do a 
> security = domain
> in samba.conf, and take a look to the NTDomain FAQ
> 
>  ^-^,-----.             mailto:frankie at etsetb.upc.es

  It has one drawback - how do you then implement password sync of NIS
when NT user changes his password (apparently only in NT PD)? No, this
is not ideal. :-(


					Jan Kratochvil


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