[Samba] WINBIND configuration and NT Authentication]

[Mikko Rautiainen]

Hi,


Yes it's possible to authenticate users from win 2000 server with 
winbind. For me
the PAM configuration was the hardest part. I used mandrake 9 and it has 
a realy
good pre config. And if you want to modify the folder/file permissions 
from NT/W2k
PDC then don't use ReiserFS as the filesystem. Use either EXT3 or XFS. 
Mayby the
ReiserFS 4 will have the ACL support.
I have had dificulties with suse and samba. Like my suse8 home server 
needs a restart
after 2 days and I don't know the reason why. I just lose the connection 
to the samba.

So the winbind part was easy to make work in mandrake 9, just need to 
config smb.conf
right and thats about it. The PAM is a bit harder (to me at least). PAM 
is the key for the
linux end to understand to use the winbind connection. If not correctly 
cinfigured it can't
get the authentication from the Win NT/2k PDC.

Here are some links that was helpful for me.
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/pam-list/2001-10/0038.html
http://ma.ph-freiburg.de/tng/tng-users/2001-06/msg00025.html
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html (very helpful)

Hope these help

Mikko Rautiainen


Chris McKeever wrote:

>Setup: 
>	Suse 7.2, Samba 2.2.6
>	Win 2K PDC
>
>Project:
>I would like to use winbind to authenticate users that do not have local
>accounts on the linux machine for access to various file and print shares.
>I have gotten winbind to successfully grab the user and groups from the NT
>box (verified by getent passwd).  However, I have had little luck obtaining
>the permission based file share that I would like.
>
>Questions:
>1.  Do users accessing the share need local accounts?
>	a. if so, is there a way to export users from win2k into linux?
>2.  Can you use NT groups in the smb.conf file to control access?
>3.  The documentation on winbind
>http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/man/winbindd.8.html almost makes it sound as
>if it may be possible to authenticate NT users and grant them login rights
>(actual session login rights, not samba shares) to the linux machine.  Is
>this true?  If so is there additional configuration to achieve this assuming
>quesiton 1 has been answered and setup properly?
>4.  Does anyone know of further online winbind documentation?
>
>Thanks in advance...
>
>Chris McKeever
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