> I am trying to setup samba so that it uses the password from my AD
> instead of having a password file in SAMBA.
>
> Can somebody tell me what I have to do on the windows 2003 side to make
>
> this work. I am guessing I have to setup a samaba acct in AD but not to
> sure. Can somebody please verify and maybe send me a screen print.
There are a million and one ways to do what you're trying to do. The
simplest way that I know of - you don't need to do anything on the Windows
side. You join the domain with the samba server, and that will create a
computer account in AD for you, just as if you were joining AD with some windows
laptop. Here's how I do that on my systems:
I don't mess with the smb.conf file. I admin the whole thing via SWAT, as
follows:
1. Enable SWAT. Browse to http://localhost:901 (note: by default in the
xinetd.d config, this interface is only enabled for localhost; by default you
can't browse to this web interface across the network; you must use
localhost or change the xinetd.d config)
2. Go to Wizard.
a. Server type: Domain member
b. Commit
3. Edit Parameter Values
a. Workgroup: MYDOMAIN
b. Realm: MYDOMAIN.COM (all caps)
c. Commit changes
4. Go to the command prompt.
net join -w MYDOMAIN -U administrator
(It's normal to get an error, as long as it says "joined" in the
end and the computer account was created in AD)
5. Restart samba