Hi friends, I am using RedHat 4.2 with the shipped samba package which works great for me. Now I am wondering, is there any way to let a group of people access a particular share without modifying anything on the unix box? My password server is a NT PDC, which is also the WINS server.>From the man page, it seems that samba will look through the UNIXgroup/passwd file to find all person belongs to that group, so what would happen if I am using a NT machine as the password server? Since NT is my password server, so I would like to let all my account management work to be done on NT only, no need to maintain on two machine. Thanks for your reading and merry christmas to you all:-) Regards =====Gong Wei
At 12:11 24-12-97 +1100, Gong Wei (NSL) wrote:>Hi friends, > >I am using RedHat 4.2 with the shipped samba package which works great >for me. Now I am wondering, is there any way to let a group of people >access a particular share without modifying anything on the unix box? >My password server is a NT PDC, which is also the WINS server. > >>From the man page, it seems that samba will look through the UNIX >group/passwd file to find all person belongs to that group, so what >would happen if I am using a NT machine as the password server? > >Since NT is my password server, so I would like to let all my account >management work to be done on NT only, no need to maintain on two >machine.I tried this, the problem is that you still have to setup an account and user directory, if you use [homes]. So this will not solve your problem. I'm looking at a KerbNet/SSH solution now. ___________________________________________________ Roeland M.J. Meyer, ISOC (InterNIC RM993) e-mail: mailto:rmeyer@mhsc.com Personalweb pages: http://www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer Company web-site: http://www.mhsc.com/ ___________________________________________ "The FBI doesn't want to read encrypted documents, they want to read YOUR encrypted documents."
Thank you for your reply. Forget to mention that the share I am going to manage is actually a 'FAX printer'(mgetty+sendfax). I just want to control, who can send fax through this service and who cannot. Well, you know, those management are always interested in nothing but "control":-) Yeah of course it would be great if samba could show the user's HOME dir(which is assigned in the NT user admin) without adding a user account and a home dir. But that is not relavent to my problem, yet.> FROM: rmeyer@mhsc.com (Roeland M.J. Meyer) > DATE: 24 Dec 97 09:21:03 -0800 > TO: MS:NSLAN/NSLMAIL/GWEI (Gong Wei) > CC: samba@samba.anu.edu.au (Multiple recipients of list) > SUBJECT: Re: [Q]Group Authentication of Samba > > At 12:11 24-12-97 +1100, Gong Wei (NSL) wrote: > >Hi friends, > > > >I am using RedHat 4.2 with the shipped samba package which works > great > >for me. Now I am wondering, is there any way to let a group of > people > >access a particular share without modifying anything on the unix box? > >My password server is a NT PDC, which is also the WINS server. > > > >>From the man page, it seems that samba will look through the UNIX > >group/passwd file to find all person belongs to that group, so what > >would happen if I am using a NT machine as the password server? > > > >Since NT is my password server, so I would like to let all my account > >management work to be done on NT only, no need to maintain on two > >machine. > > I tried this, the problem is that you still have to setup an account > and > user directory, if you use [homes]. So this will not solve your > problem. > I'm looking at a KerbNet/SSH solution now. > ___________________________________________________ >