Galella, Anthony wrote:
>I have a FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE server running as an NIS slave and client.
>The machine is also accessed through Samba from windows PCs
>Is it possible to set samba to authenticate users with their NIS
>username/password?
>
Only if you turn off encrypted passwords in Samba.
I'm currently doing it this way with one client. Works great.
>
>Do I still have to use smbpasswd? Is there a way to automate, so NIS users
>will automatically have Samba access?
>
We're setting up scripts to use rsync to replicate smbpasswd to the
multiple hosts,
it's described briefly in the docs that ship with Samba.
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>
>Thanks
>
>Anthony J. Galella
>anthony.galella@intel.com
>