[Samba] using LDAP and PDC together

Terry Katz katz at advanced.org
Fri Sep 6 05:24:00 GMT 2002


>
> You must put the guest user (RID 501 I think) into ldap, or run 
> 'unixsam' to
> get it via smb.conf's 'guest account' and the system getpw* calls.
>
> Without a guest account, the system cannot operate correctly.  
> Furthermore,
> the guest account is used by the Workstation in the user authenticaion
> process.
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>

Well now I feel a bit dumb :-)

Worked like a charm, thanks!!
(citrix woes seem to have gone away as well )...

(odd thing is, I already had that guest account on one of the systems 
and I could swear this didn't work the last time I tried it .. oh well)

Thanks again,
Terry




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