samba - Jan 1999 - NIS Password support

I am using samba ver 1.9.18p10 in a NIS on Solaris 2.6 environment with NT
4.0 clients and am experiencing password authentication problems.  Could
someone let me know whether NIS support is built into samba, or is there
only support for NIS plus.  In smb.conf, if I set password server = <my
unix nis server>, and security = server, I get an incorrect password error
message and a prompt for the correct password on the NT client when I try
to browse the shared resources.  However, everything works if I use an NT
server to do the authentication, i.e password server = <an NT
authentication machine>.   

Thanks very much for your attention.

Edmund Gair (Systems Administrator)
Centre for Computing Services
Royal Free and University College Medical School
Royal Free Campus
Email	e.gair@rfhsm.ac.uk
Phone	+44 (0)171 830 2911 
Fax	+44 (0)171 830 2463

> I am using samba ver 1.9.18p10 in a NIS on Solaris 2.6 environment
> with NT 4.0 clients and am experiencing password authentication
> problems.  Could someone let me know whether NIS support is built
> into samba, or is there only support for NIS plus.  In smb.conf, if
> I set password server = <my unix nis server>, and security = server,
> I get an incorrect password error message and a prompt for the
> correct password on the NT client when I try to browse the shared
> resources.  However, everything works if I use an NT server to do
> the authentication, i.e password server = <an NT authentication
> machine>.   
See "man smb.conf" password server has to point to an NT or SAMBA
server that can deal with the NT-style encrypted passwords and the
related stuff. This is NT-autentitation and has nothing to do with NIS
or NIS+


Christian