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Re: [SLUG]SAMBA & NT


On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, [iso-8859-1] Bernhard Lüder wrote:

> - Samba server should be domain master and should do authentication of all
> logins (all Win98 machines). This is working.
> 
> - NT is the box with the disk space, which it should share. This is not
> happening
> 
> 
> Problem:
> 
> When a user logs in she/he gets access to the shares on the Samba server.
> However access to the shares on the NT box is denied until the same user ID
> / password of the user is also entered into the NT box (currently stand
> alone installation, but can change if required, but not anything other than
> NT4).
> 
> What I want is:
> All users to only be entered once into the Linux Samba box (because this
> also give them E-mail) and having access to the shares on the NT box.

That's not a Samba problem, it's a WindoZe problem.

You need to put both machines {your Samba box and your WindoZe machine}
into the same domain, with the Samba box as the PDC.

Then the resource sharing should work once authenticated against the Samba
box.

DaZZa