samba - Feb 2006 - Samba, LDAP, and unix account

Hi every one!

	Until now, I used samba as a simple public share server... and now, I would
like to use it with many account. I know it's possible, but I would like
something particular:

I would like to have SAMBA account independent from the unix account system!
Here is how I think my system: all files on the server will be owned by a
unix account dedicated to samba storage, but I would like to set owner and
access right from user of the samba acount system. I also would like to be
able to set up right on each directory from windows and being able to get
the samba account list from windows without creating a PDC with samba and
registering each pc to this domain....

Is it possible, or Do I have to create a PDC?

Franck

thanks to every one for your answers !

Ether:

If you're new to samba, you may want to start w/ smbpasswd, or tdb 
authentication before going to LDAP.
http://us5.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba3-ByExample/simple.html#id2517375
http://us5.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba3-HOWTO/install.html#tdbdocs

-Bill


Ether wrote:
>Hi every one!
>
>	Until now, I used samba as a simple public share server... and now, I would
>like to use it with many account. I know it's possible, but I would like
>something particular:
>
>I would like to have SAMBA account independent from the unix account system!
>Here is how I think my system: all files on the server will be owned by a
>unix account dedicated to samba storage, but I would like to set owner and
>access right from user of the samba acount system. I also would like to be
>able to set up right on each directory from windows and being able to get
>the samba account list from windows without creating a PDC with samba and
>registering each pc to this domain....
>
>Is it possible, or Do I have to create a PDC?
>
>Franck
>
>thanks to every one for your answers !
>
>  
>