[Samba] Re: Samba with NIS Authentication

[Saurabh Jain]

I have a huge UNIX network. I want to deploy a Samba server using NIS
Authentication mechanism for the growing number of windows machines.
What are the pros and cons of using NIS authentication with Samba?
Also any pointer/docs in setting up Samba with NIS Authentication. I
am pretty much familiar in setting up Samba using the default
smbpasswd authentication.

Thanks in advance

On 8/8/05, Saurabh Jain <jassduec at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a huge UNIX network. I want to deploy a Samba server using NIS
> Authentication mechanism for the growing number of windows machines.
> What are the pros and cons of using NIS authentication with Samba?
> Also any pointer/docs in setting up Samba with NIS Authentication. I
> am pretty much familiar in setting up Samba using the default
> smbpasswd authentication.
> 
> Thanks in advance
>