[Samba] Authentication against AD

[Aaron Collins]

When you say bleeding edge, does that include FreeBSD 5.1?  Are there
any patches to get it to work with 5.1?

On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 14:45, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 05:49, Morten-Christian Bernson wrote:
> > We have a FreeBSD webserver with Samba 2.2.8.  It has been set up as a
> > member-server of our active directory domain, and all seems good so
> > far.
> > 
> > What I want is to let a set of users access a share (www) as the
> > www-user, and they should authenticate against AD, and they should not
> > need an account on the BSD machine at all.  I don't want any add user
> > script and so on, I only want them to access the share if they are one
> > of the defined users, and the password is aproved by the windows
> > servers.
> 
> You still need user accounts, sorry.  Use winbind (which needs nsswitch,
> which needs some bleeding edge version of FreeBSD) or add the users
> manually.
> 
> Andrew Bartlett