samba - Jul 2002 - Question About Samba PDC/NIS/2k

We are currently running Samba in a security=share mode, I would like to 
switch this to have samba be a PDC and use domain authentication.

Anyone out there combined the following successfully?

Linux Redhat 7.x NIS master and PDC, using NIS as authentication
for PDC/Windows?

I have seen several things on just having an samba PDC but I would like to
keep using our NIS as it's used for many other things. (No it's not
NIS+)

Any hints or pitfalls or success stories about combining all these so that
your PDC is also the NIS master which uses the same NIS info for authen
on the NT side with 98/2k/Xp using it as a pdc also?

Brent
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> Whitewolf wrote:
> 
> We are currently running Samba in a security=share mode, I would like
> to
> switch this to have samba be a PDC and use domain authentication.
> 
> Anyone out there combined the following successfully?
> 
> Linux Redhat 7.x NIS master and PDC, using NIS as authentication
> for PDC/Windows?
> 
> I have seen several things on just having an samba PDC but I would
> like to
> keep using our NIS as it's used for many other things. (No it's not
> NIS+)
> 
> Any hints or pitfalls or success stories about combining all these so
> that
> your PDC is also the NIS master which uses the same NIS info for
> authen
> on the NT side with 98/2k/Xp using it as a pdc also?
You will have to ensure the passwords are syncronised between Samba's
smbpasswd and the NIS database manually.  They cannot use the same
password file.

A PDC must run with 'encrypt passwords = yes'

Andrew Bartlett

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