[Samba] Samba3 + LDAP

Adam Tauno Williams
Sat, 29 May 2004 16:20:43 -0000

> Is there any way to make it so that Samba3 with an LDAP backend doesn't
need
> to create local linux accounts to work?  Thanks.

You *NEED* a POSIX account for each CIFS account, no way around that.
Just use NSS and store the POSIX accounts in LDAP along with the CIFS
accounts.