[Samba] Winbind basic questions

[Bruno Afonso]

On 18 Nov 2002 at 13:13, Brent Ross (Edm) wrote:

> - Do I have to use PAM if all I want is to access the following Samba share from
> my W2K clients? 

No.

- Should I install Samba configured using --with-winbind, or
> --with-winbind-auth-challenge as well (I have tried both but neither work) - If

It's irrelevant.


> I do need PAM, I am reading conflicting info from the
> /swat/help/PAM-Authentication-And-Samba.html file. It states "Note that Samba
> always ignores PAM for authentication in the case of encrypt passwords = yes",
> which I need if I am using security = domain - If I do not need PAM to

you need security=domain.


> Do I need to create user accounts on the samba server? (I hope not, I understand
> that's what winbind is for) - Do I need to create any machine accounts? (Other
> than joining the samba server to the domain.)

You need to join the server 
to the domain, yes.
You probably need to 
create local accounts. Try 
with one, try to access it. 
Take out the valid users 
until you can access it 
correctly, then tighten it. :-)

You can't use all of the 
winbind features... I dream 
the day nsswitch is fully 
implemented on freebsd :-)

      
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