Jeff Pajor wrote:>
> Hi all,
>
> I know this has probably been spoke about before,
> but I'm looking for some documentation or other
> info on setting up NIS+ with samba.... I currently
> have samba running on the NIS+ master, but am having
> trouble setting up authentication again the NIS+
> passwd tables. I'm also not exactly sure
> where smbpasswd comes into play with NIS+ and if I
> actually need to run that everytime I add or change
> a user. Any help or links or sample conf files
> would be great to help me out!
Jeff,
If you are using plain text authentication, Samba will simply
perform a getpwnam() call which will obtain the user information
from the passwd.org_dir map automatically. An smbpasswd file
only comes into play if you have configured Samba to use
password encryption.
I'm not a bid fan a NIS+ so my opinion is that sharing
your smbpasswd file as a NIS+ table is a bad idea.
Very easy to use ssh/rsync though to distribute the smbpasswd file
securely.
If you need more information, let me know.
Cheers,
jerry
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