[Samba] Copy User/Pass from Samba to WinXP

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 07:57, Jean-Rene Cormier wrote:
> Ok I have a samba server that I use for file sharing, I have a lot of
> trouble with it and I want to see if putting those shares on a WinXP box
> would work better. But we don't have a domain here, just workstation in
> a workgroup and I was wondering if there was a way I could copy all
> user/pass from the samba server to the Windows box so that transfering
> the shares from Samba to Windows would be transparent to them. I would
> do that in the off hours of course. I don't need to sync the password
> after that since it'll only be for a short period of time to see how
> well or not it works. Like if I use the passwords in the smbpasswd file
> is there a way I can import them in windows? I don't care if I have to
> enter every user into the windows box by hand but I don't want to ask
> everybody to retype their password for that.
> 
> And please don't reply if it's only to tell me to stay away from windows
> or something like that, it pissed me off enough already today.

Samba cannot act as a PDC for SAM replication, and that's the only real
way that Windows systems can use for importing pre-hashed passwords. 
(as far as I know).  However, if you are just needing to run this WinXP
server as a 'slave', then making your Samba machine a PDC and joining
the WinXP machine to the domain should work.  Your existing clients can
still access the Samba server as-before, they are not forced to use
domain logons etc.

Andrew Bartlett

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