[Samba] Samba and Active Diectory

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How do I keep users and passwds in sync. ie  when an nt user changeshis/her
passwd on the wintel desktop client?

-regards

Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Odenbach" <odenbach at hni.uni-paderborn.de>
To: <news at jamdung.com>; <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 2:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba and Active Diectory


>
> 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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