[Samba] Samba 3.0 question

Paul Eggleton paule at cjntech.co.nz
Thu Jul 10 22:05:41 GMT 2003


Hi John,

John Brown wrote on Thursday, 10 July 2003 8:06 a.m.:
> Do we still need to add the users/machines to the /etc/passwd file
> with Samba 3.0? 

Not necessarily. If you're joining to an existing domain, you can use
Winbind to link users from the domain into Unix. I believe you can do
the same thing with LDAP.
 
> What documentation did you use when setting up Samba 3.0?

By far the most comprehensive document is the HOWTO collection. It
covers almost all aspects of setting up and using Samba 3.0.
http://samba.org/~jht/NT4migration/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf

Cheers,
Paul



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