[Samba] Samba with NT4 authentication

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Oct 17 00:28:34 GMT 2006


On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 08:43 +1300, Chandra Sornam wrote:
> Have installed Samba 3 on a Linux box with Centos OS to be a file
> server. Getting its authentication from a NT4 PDC. Have created samba
> shares and members of the NT4 PDC group can successfully access the
> group. The only problem is users cannot authenticate their home share on
> the Linux server.
> A webinfo -r of the domain user gives the uid of the group the user is a
> member of. The user can access the share successfully as well.
> Have gone through the smb.conf and other config files, and done
> extensive search on the net to figure out the problem but have hit a
> blank wall. There are no noticeable errors in the log files that I can
> see either. 
> 
> Regards
> 
> CS
> 
> Config file as below
> 
> [global]
>    workgroup = domain
>         netbios aliases = test
>         server string = test File Server
>         security = DOMAIN
>         password server = scnz-nt02 scnz-nt01
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how about 'getent passwd' ? does that enumerate the users from winbind?
'getent group' ? does that enumerate the groups from winbind?

if so, does a users uid from winbind match the uid from their 'home'
directory?

Craig



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