[SLUG] Re: [SLUG]SAMBA & NT

[Anand Kumria <wildfire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 01:22:45AM +1000, Bernhard Lüder wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a question for the samba specialist. I will keep it short.
> 
> Situation:
> 
> - 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).

As far as I am aware the only method of sharing authentication information *to*
an NT4 server is via trusted domains and/or using PDCs/BDCs etc. Samba does not
do the PDC (Primary Domain Controller) function at the moment.

Alpha versions apparently do. You can, however, share authentication information
*from* an NT4 server. Winbind[0], which is a NSS library, in combination with 
pam_ntdom[1] allows this.

Regards,
Anand

[0]: http://www.advogato.org/proj/winbind/
[1]: http://www.advogato.org/proj/pam_ntdom/