Does anyone have any experience using an IMAP server to authenticate Samba users? The idea is to control viability and read/write access to file/print services using an Internal only email server. Thanks, John
On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 16:54 +0000, John Casterlin wrote:> Does anyone have any experience using an IMAP server to authenticate Samba > users? The idea is to control viability and read/write access to file/print > services using an Internal only email server.It's not possible to use external, password based, authentication services, unless you use clear text authentication, which is incompatible with domain memberships. Simo. -- Simo Sorce Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer <simo@samba.org> Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. <simo@redhat.com>
No. But authenticating both against LDAP makes good sense.... On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 8:54 AM, John Casterlin <jcaster2000@comcast.net> wrote:> Does anyone have any experience using an IMAP server to authenticate Samba > users? The idea is to control viability and read/write access to file/print > services using an Internal only email server. > > Thanks, John > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba >
Ray Klassen schrieb:> No. But authenticating both against LDAP makes good sense.... > > On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 8:54 AM, John Casterlin <jcaster2000@comcast.net> wrote: >> Does anyone have any experience using an IMAP server to authenticate Samba >> users? The idea is to control viability and read/write access to file/print >> services using an Internal only email server. >> >> Thanks, John >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >> instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba >>Hi, with dovecot you can use winbind and ldap should work too http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/Mechanisms/Winbind?highlight=(winbind) -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria