Hello! I am trying to configure my samba server to authenticate users using a Windows NT server, SP3, in order to share directories based on the user id, but I am not achieving what I want. I have set the "security" option to server and the "password server" to <my server>, and I have done the workaround suggested by Microsoft regarding plain text passwords, but when I try to connect to my shared samba directory it asks me for a password, and when I give my Windows NT password it denies me the access to the directory. Can anyone help me on that? Regards, Carlos Zottmann zottmann@stj.gov.br
Hello - I was looking for a way to use samba to authenticate users against an NT domian. I don't want to connect to any resource, just determine if the uid/password pair matches what's in the domain database. I've been able to work this out with smbclient, using -c exit, and scanning the output to determine if the connection was succesful or not. This has a limitation in that I must attempt to connect to a resource to check the uid/password pair, but the resource I use may or may not be accessible by the user I'm trying to authenticate. I realize a dummy resoource could be set up that everyone has access to, but I'm not confident this will work well with over 8000 users on a distributed network. I was hoping there was some way to just check the authentication and return pass or fail. While I'm asking, is there any way to get a list of the groups a user belongs to? Thanks, Bill Scherer
Hi,
We are a large organisation that has been using samba for all our
file and print sharing for quite sometime now. With this approach we
have been using a Windows NT 4 Server PDC to do all our user and
password validation. What we wish to do is to remove Windows from the
equation and use some other, hopefully linux solution to provide this
functionality. We still require the functionality of a number of
Windows NT 4 Workstations/Servers on the domain.
Q1. What are other peoples/businesses solutions for user and password
validation?
Q2. If using Samba, is the integration of the Windows NT 4
Workstations/Server reasonably easy?
Cheer, Thanks for you time
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Clayton Rogers
Computer Systems Officer
Bundaberg City Council
Queensland, Australia
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