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I have a prerelease version of Samba 2.0.4 running successfully on MacOSX Server with encrypted passwords and domain security. (Thanks to help from Bill Chin and others on the list, and Jeremy Allison and rest of the samba team) I have just started work on testing Samba as a NT domain member, and want to know if I have the right ideas from my reading of the docs: With security = domain, the Samba

...d samba to the NT server for authentication > to ensure that users could browse to their files without being asked for > another password because the NT logon and Samba authentication both use > the NT information. To make the unix logon seem to be identical we found > a product called SyNTUnix (http://www.syntunix.com) which will synchronise > NT and Unix passwords. It uses encryption and allows us to change > passwords any which way we like, whether the user changes it or an > administrator does with usrmgr.exe or something. It always synchronises. > It is licensed per ser...

...roblem with NT workstations accessing Samba running on AIX 4.3.2. I checked the www.redbooks.ibm.com website, and the IBM manual AIX for Windows NT: Solutions for Interoperability SG24-5102-01 states that they recommend a product called Passync by Suntunix. I tried to find their website (www.syntunix.com) and it seems they've gone out of business! Does anyone know what happened to the Passync product? Is it still available from some other vendor, or under a different name? I've tried quite a few search engines, and all references to them are from 1999. Jane Douglas - IT Specia...