samba - Mar 2004 - user authentication ....

HI Samba Guru's

     We are installing Samba newly on our environment. We have lot of users 
existing in our enviromnt. We would like to give samba access to users. 
Do we have add each user or can we tell the samba to authenticate the users 
from /etc/passwd and password from /etc/shadow and what are the options 
if the users are in NIS.

   Please help Thanks
   Prasad.

In your smb.conf:
        update encrypted = Yes
        smb passwd file = /etc/shadow
        unix password sync = Yes


Marcone Theisen
SOLIS - www.solis.coop.br

prasad.vasireddy@criticalpath.net wrote:
>HI Samba Guru's
>
>     We are installing Samba newly on our environment. We have lot of users 
>existing in our enviromnt. We would like to give samba access to users. 
>Do we have add each user or can we tell the samba to authenticate the users 
>from /etc/passwd and password from /etc/shadow and what are the options 
>if the users are in NIS.
>
>   Please help Thanks
>   Prasad.
>  
>

Hi..

  If  i add these entries to the smb.conf in the GLOBAL parmeters.

        update encrypted = Yes
        smb passwd file = /etc/shadow
        unix password sync = Yes

 I was getting following error messages.

getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (uid not number)
getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (no : after uid)
getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (uid not number)

 Please let me know if any one have seen these error messages.

Thanks
Prasad.