Hello, I have apache web server running on unix system. Then we have lots of users who only have accounts on our NT-domain. I'd like to do user&group authentications from our NT-domain using samba/SMBlib to do the actual authentication. Now does anyone know if there are already such systems available? What I'd like to do: 1) User connects to web page http://web/xyz. 2) He/she gets challenged and should give his username/password (NT-domain uname/passwd). 3) Web-server does user/group validation by connecting NT-domain server. 4) User gets the page if uname/passwd were correct. I thought about using SMBlib for this validating system. Is there a good/easy way to validate users with smblib and how to actually do it? Do I actually need to connect some share (\\ntserver\public) to get user validation or can I just do some _generic calls_ without actually connecting to any share? And how to get group information from NT-domain? Like: User only in admin group can access this web page. Do I need to create _fake shares_ for all groups, say \\ntserver\group1, \\ntserver\admins, etc. and allow only group1 to connect group1-share. Then I could do group-validations by connecting to one of these shares, but this seems stupid... - Goodi "UNIX should be used as an adjective." -- AT&T