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2008 May 30
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Mapping of Unix groups to Samba user permissions
...veral installations in homes and small businesses that are all Windows desktops (typically XP Home edition) and Linux servers (typically Fedora Core 8), and I use the Linux user database (/etc/passwd + /etc/shadow) as the primary authentication. To make this work, I edit the Windows registry to set EnablePlainTextPasswd=1. (Why? When I started setting these systems up, it was Windows95 so there was no authentication on the Windows side. To make use of Windows administration tools, you need Windows XP Pro on the desktops, and need to learn lots of windows stuff. My background is Unix, so that seems like un-necessar...