[Samba] (no subject)

Stéphane Purnelle stephane.purnelle at tiscali.be
Wed Feb 18 21:10:35 GMT 2004


Winbind is used if you want to authentificate unix account with a other PDC.
I don't know if on the same server you can use winbind for unix auth and 
ldap for Samba ...

Loc Nguyen a écrit :

> Is this means we can use winbind rather setting up nss,PAM with ldap 
> to authenticate ? I'll try this to understand more Thanks!
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Stéphane Purnelle <stephane.purnelle at tiscali.be>
>> Sent: Wednesday, 18. Feb 2004 12:49 -0800
>> To: Loc Nguyen <nguyenbloc at tuluc.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Samba] (no subject)
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>> The howto from idealx explain a PDC with "unix auth" in LDAP.
>> Your Linux (RedHat I suppose) use nss_ldap and nsswitch.conf for find
>> UNIX user and groups.
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>> Samba don't have a support for NUA, if the linux layer don't find user,
>> samba don't work.
>> I don't know howto set unix user is passwd and samba part in LDAP.
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>> Loc Nguyen a écrit :
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>> >Hi list,
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>> >Could anyone explain why Samba+LDAP PDC needs to have PAM and
>> >NSS configured with ldap to authenticate ?
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>> >I thought that SAMBA
>> >authenticates directly against LDAP rather asking PAM/NSS to do this,
>> >but this doesn't seem to be true.
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>> >I configured a Samba+LDAP PDC with
>> >the help of idealx.org SAMBA PDC howto. I succeeded with 3.0.2a. Just
>> >for experimenting, I used authconfig to disable ldap in nssswitch.conf
>> >and system-auth, the PDC stop working. Is it true that SAMBA need to
>> >authenticate twice, one with SambaSamAccount, and another with
>> >PosixAccount?
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>> >thanks for any ideas on this matter
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>> Stéphane Purnelle <stephane.purnelle at tiscali.be 
>> <mailto:stephane.purnelle at tiscali.be>>
>> Site Web : http://www.linuxplusvalue.be
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