[Samba] Re: Samba with Domain User accounts

[Jamrock]

"anth jaz" <antsoundz at eudoramail.com> wrote in message
news:BKDKLCJBJFNDBAAA at whowhere.com...

 There are a lot of users and equally a lot of passwords on the domain and
it isn't very efficient to add every user to the Linux box. Is there a way
to get around this. Have the Linux server communicate with the PDC or BDC
since it is a member of the domain?

Yes.  You can use the add user script.

Create a group for the users.  You could use staff for example.

groupadd staff

Add the following line to the global section of your smb.conf file.

add user script =  useradd -c "Account from PDC"
-s /bin/false \ -d /home/%u -m -n -g staff  %u

The commands do the following:

useradd -c "Account from PDC".    Adds a user to the Linux box and call it
"Account from PDC".

-s /bin/false \            Prevents the user from logging in locally.

-d /home/%u -m      Creates the user's home directory

-n -g staff  %u           Adds the user to the staff group

The commands may vary slightly from one distro to the next.