[Samba] Samba and Active Diectory

[Christopher Odenbach]

Hi,

> problem:
>
> I wish to implement samba on a solaris 8 with authentication from a
> win2k active directory server.
>
> I wish to have user dorectories mounted to AD server via samba and
> authenticated via AD.
>
> Anyone knows an easy/doable way to do this?

If you have all the windows users also defined on the solaris box 
(locally in /etc/passwd, via nis or ldap), then just

- set "security = domain"
- join the samba server to the AD domain

If you don't want to define the users on solaris, use winbind.

Christopher


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