[Samba] Active Directory - Which Samba version is needed?

[Guenther Deschner]

hi alexander,

On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 10:06:43AM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'd like to setup a Samba server which should do user authentication
> against an Active Directory.  Our AD admins told me, that we do not have
> Window NT 4.0 Domains available.
> 
> What I'm trying to accomplish, is that the users can login with the same
> username/password they use with the AD.  Also, if the password is
> changed in the AD, this change should be reflected on the Samba server.
>  It doesn't have to be the other way arround - ie. the Samba server
> doesn't have to be able to do password changes.

you should set up samba with winbindd to achieve this.
http://de.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#WINBIND
 

> The reason is, that I need a way for the Windows users to access files
> on NFS shares.

maybe you should give us more details on this. how do you plan to restrict
access to these shares?

bye,
guenther
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