Windows clients are authenticated via NIS to access Unix AIX servers. I had to
manually encrypt SMB user passwords
to enable them to access the Unix file shares. This turned out to be a lot
extra work so I started searching for another
way around this problem. I came up with using password server = server_name and
security = server. This
allowed me to disable the smbpasswd file and access simply by redirecting
authentication to the password server.
I have three Samba servers and one of them is the actual NIS authentication
server. In the smb.conf html help file there is a
statement under password server that says "Never point a Samba server at
itself
for password serving. This will cause
a loop and could lock up your Samba server!"
Looks like I'm snookered again, is there another way to get around this?
Todd
