Hello. I am administrating about 30PCs with W2K and users are authenticated in SAMBA running as PDC on Linux. About 16PCs have the possibillity to boot also into Linux. I would like to authenticate also linux users using the samba, because I do not want to copy passwd, group, shadow each time I add a user, or even add the user on each PC. I do not use LDAP a do not know NIS. Is it possible to use samba for such a thing? Any tips? Thanks Jan Kovar
If you want to try to use winbind, this might work. I haven't had too much luck with winbind, but you can give it a shot. You'll need to go back and recompile samba on your clients, specifying the "--with-winbind" option. Then you'll want to have a look at some of the documentation files. Look in the doc/textdocs directory of the untarred samba source file. You should find something with winbind in the name. That will give you instructions on what changes you need to make to your samba configuration, PAM configuration, and NSS configuration. --Nick Kovar Jan wrote:> Hello. > I am administrating about 30PCs with W2K and users are authenticated in > SAMBA running as PDC on Linux. About 16PCs have the possibillity to boot > also into Linux. I would like to authenticate also linux users using the > samba, because I do not want to copy passwd, group, shadow each time I add a > user, or even add the user on each PC. I do not use LDAP a do not know NIS. > Is it possible to use samba for such a thing? Any tips? > > Thanks > > Jan Kovar > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba-- You can't make a difference until you are willing to be different. -- Nick Couchman SEAKR Engineering 6221 South Racine Circle Centennial, CO 80111 Desk: (303) 784-7724 Main: (303) 790-8499 Fax: (303) 790-8720
Kovar Jan wrote:> Hello. > I am administrating about 30PCs with W2K and users are authenticated in > SAMBA running as PDC on Linux. About 16PCs have the possibillity to boot > also into Linux. I would like to authenticate also linux users using the > samba, because I do not want to copy passwd, group, shadow each time I add a > user, or even add the user on each PC. I do not use LDAP a do not know NIS. > Is it possible to use samba for such a thing? Any tips? >You could take a look at this article: http://www.networkcomputing.com/shared/printArticle.jhtml?article=/1305/1305ws1full.html&pub=nwc It shows a way to do this sort of thing without winbind. I think you can't get away from having an *account* on each PC, but the *password* verification is done against the PDC. Seems like some account verification is done outside of PAM or in such a way that you can't get it done against the PDC. But maybe it's nicer if you use a Linux PDC. I (and the article's author, probably), only tried this against a Win2K PDC.