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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...