[Samba] Can Samba integrate with NIS?

[Bill Moran]

Galella, Anthony wrote:

>I have a FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE server running as an NIS slave and client. 
>The machine is also accessed through Samba from windows PCs 
>Is it possible to set samba to authenticate users with their NIS
>username/password?
>

Only if you turn off encrypted passwords in Samba.
I'm currently doing it this way with one client.  Works great.

>
>Do I still have to use smbpasswd?  Is there a way to automate, so NIS users
>will automatically have Samba access?
>

We're setting up scripts to use rsync to replicate smbpasswd to the 
multiple hosts,
it's described briefly in the docs that ship with Samba.

>
>
>Thanks
>
>Anthony J. Galella
>anthony.galella at intel.com
>