Hi Is it possible to give users a different policy? If it's not possible by default, can I do it with preexec? Wasn't there an option to let a file contain the output of a program, and each time it is read, the output is piped instead of contents of a file? Because I think that would be safer, than a preexec that replaces my policy file, because when other users log in at exactly the same time, they would be able to get full permissions :-) BTW, We're planning to setup WinNT workstations with a samba server as server: what kind of problems can we expect? Paul -- Paul Dekkers E-Mail: <P.Dekkers@cgu.nl> To err is human, to moo bovine
Paul,> Is it possible to give users a different policy?Create a user in the policy file with the <username> you want. This works with WinNT under the experiemental Samba PDC as well. Groups are not supported though.> BTW, We're planning to setup WinNT workstations with a > samba server as server: what kind of problems can we > expect?Do you mean as a PDC or simply a file server. For information on Samba as a PDC check out the NTDOM FAQ linked off the main samba site. If you are planning on only using it as a file server, there's a registry setting neccessary to enable the client to access shares using plain text passwords (docs/NT4_PlainPassword.reg) or you can setup the samba server to use encrypted passwords (docs/ENCRYPTION.txt). No other real big issues besides this. Hope thsi helps, j- ________________________________________________________________________ Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter Engineering Network Services Auburn University jerry@eng.auburn.edu http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/cartegw "...a hundred billion castaways looking for a home." - Sting "Message in a Bottle" ( 1979 )
Hi On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Gerald Carter wrote: | > Is it possible to give users a different policy? | | Create a user in the policy file with the <username> you | want. This works with WinNT under the experiemental Samba | PDC as well. Groups are not supported though. Hmm... is it possible with the preexec command too? I'd make at about 700 accounts, and I think the policy file would become too big and it would become to complex to create an entry for each user... So if I can easily copy the data when the group is different to the file... Is it possible that normal users then get the data of an extended user? BTW, are groups not possible under NT or not because SAMBA is unable to deliver the group information? Maybe then serving using an NT server is a better idea, however I'd like to use the passwords from my unix server, and it saves a lot of money when just using an unix box... | > BTW, We're planning to setup WinNT workstations with a | > samba server as server: what kind of problems can we | > expect? | | Do you mean as a PDC or simply a file server. For information both ;-) | on Samba as a PDC check out the NTDOM FAQ linked off the main | samba site. is 18p10 a good idea, or should I experiment with 2.0.0alpha? (it's still not possible to use the account information on the unix server with nt isn't it?) | samba server to use encrypted passwords (docs/ENCRYPTION.txt). No other | real big issues besides this. yes, I'm using encrypted passwords already, and let users use smbpasswd for their passwords, so the unix password is updated too (haven't tested this yet, so I hope it works...) Thanks for your help, Paul -- Paul Dekkers E-Mail: <P.Dekkers@cgu.nl> To err is human, to moo bovine