[Samba] samba PDC/NIS client

[Tony Molloy]

On Sunday 11 March 2012 05:31:35 Simon Matthews wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Gaiseric Vandal
> 
> <gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com>wrote:
> > Do you have password sync enabled?    If password sync is
> > enabled, samba will try to use the passwd command to set the
> > unix password.  But with nis, you probably might need something
> > nis specific. On solaris it was “passwd –r nis” -  not sure
> > about linux.    Probably better to just disable password sync.
> 

I've got a very similar setup to you. Except I use a smbpasswd file.

> No, I don't have this option enabled. I am not sure how it is
> relevant. Problem summary:
> The samba PDC is an NIS client
> "getent passwd" retruns the passwd data.
> The user's SAMBA password was set  using smbpasswd
> The user's NIS passwd was set using yppasswd

So far all the same.

> ALL I had to do to allow domain logins was:
> ypcat passwd | grep <username> >> /etc/passwd

Why duplicate the password entries. I just have them in NIS and 
/etc/passwd just has the system passwords.

> Note that after copying the user details to /etc/passwd, the
> password that was set with "smbpasswd" was the password that was
> used with the successful domain login.

Don't really uinderstand what you mean by "domain logins"

1.  Create the user under linux first
2.  Use smbpasswd to add the user to samba

You now have a user in both linux and samba but remember the passwords 
are stored separately, changing one does not change the other.

3.   Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf. Set

passwd:    files nis
shdow:      files

That works for me. YMMV

Tony

> 
> Simon