samba in an NT Domain?

[Larry Clark]

Chris Herrmann wrote:
> 
> hmm... i can understand why there would be a lag - samba has to find a
> pdc/bdc and ask it to authenticate but you don't want that to be really
> slow... is it just the initial bit that's slow, or any time they connect to
> a share?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: root [mailto:root]On Behalf Of Larry Clark
> Sent: Thursday, 25 January 2001 12:38
> To: Chris Herrmann
> Subject: Re: samba in an NT Domain?
> 
> man this sux......well I got this smb file from this guy and was looking
> at it. and so I changed the security and changed it to domain. well it
> worked for me, but with all the ohers users it made them lag and soime
> didn't connect. takes to long to authenticate. I think it may have
> something to do with novell on our wire, not sure. but when I change it
> back to security = user, and disable passwd server =......then they all
> connect really fast with no problems......weird huh?
> 
> Chris Herrmann wrote:
> >
> > so now you're using security = domain ???
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
> > Behalf Of Larry Clark
> > Sent: Thursday, 25 January 2001 12:00
> > To: Bill Grzanich; samba at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: Re: samba in an NT Domain?
> >
> > ok ...now I am getting somewhere. I changed the security domain and
> > passwd server = "passwd server" and I am now able to log in lickety
> > split. no problems. I was using security = server. and I would get
> > problems like you wouldn't believe. now it seems to work fine, oh yea,
> > passwd are encrypted too.....thanks
> >
> > Bill Grzanich wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi, Larry.
> > >
> > > > is anyone using a samba server with in an NT domain where it is
> > > > authenticating users back to the NT domain controller? if so I would
> > > > like to here from you and see your smb.conf file thanks....larry
> > > >
> > >
> > > I've been following your discussion in the mailing list.  I've attached
> an
> > > abbreviated copy of my smb.conf for your review.  We have one Linux
> server
> > > (RedHat 6.2) and two NT servers in our network.  One of the NT servers
> is
> > > the PDC and is used to authenticate users.  I've deleted some of the
> > printer
> > > and user shares to reduce the file size, but I've left the [global]
> > section
> > > intact. I hope this helps.
> > >
> > > -Bill
> > >
> >
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> > >                Name: smb.conf
> > >    smb.conf    Type: unspecified type (application/octet-stream)
> > >            Encoding: 7bit