[Samba] MS Access and Samba Problem

[Andrew Bartlett]

Matt Lung wrote:
> 
> hello,
> 
> I hope someone can help me with this problem because it is really unique
> 
> and odd... or at least it seems to me.  I can't find any references
> anywhere as to anyone else having the same trouble.
> 
> Here is the story:
> 
> I have a machine running RH 7.1 and samba 2.2.3a as our PDC for the
> Network.  This box also serves other purposes such as Name server, dhcp
> server, internal web server, and LDAP server to name a few.  All of our
> users athenticate to the PDC via LDAP and not a local /etc/passwd file.
> That all works great.
> 
> The problem:
> 
> We also have another Samba server running RH 7.1 and Samba 2.2.3a and
> that is our database server.  The database is on a share and can be seen
> 
> and ran from client machines on the network.  The samba server running
> the
> databases is set up to security = Server, and the Password server = PDC.

security=server has *bad idea* written all over it.  I would highly
recommend changing this to 'security = domain' (and joining the
domain).  The problem is that with 'security=server' we must maintain
the connection to the PDC, if that is dropped (like becouse the
connection was idle - I think out keepalive stuff might be broken too)
the we can't authenticate again.  

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                 abartlet at pcug.org.au
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