[Samba] User validation in domain different than workgroup

[John H Terpstra]

Pascual,

You need to use Samba-3.0.1, and then use Interdomain Trusts. See
Samba-HOWTO chapter on that.

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf

- John T.


On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Pascual Muñoz wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> First of all, I'm really a newbie in Samba. I can manage to setup the Samba
> server in security = user, and now I'm trying to do a more complicated thing.
>
> I wish the Samba server to be our domain master in group COMOPT, that is
> workgroup = COMPOPT. I do not want to have Linux user accounts for the users,
> but rather to validate them using another domain server, whose domain is UPVNET,
> and then map all the connections to the shares to a single Linux user for all of
> them.
>
> I'm a little bit confused, because it seems I must use security = domain and
> winbind, but then workgroup should be UPVNET rather than COMOPT, that is the one
> I want.
>
> Sorry in advance for this little mess. Maybe I'm asking something that makes no
> sense. Can any one help me?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Pascual.
>
>

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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org