Alan Dayley wrote: > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: >> I don't believe winbindd has much if anything to do with authentication. >> >> I'm not clear about what your situation is. Are you saying that it's >> presently using a windoze (domain controller) server for authentication, and >> now you want samba to handle authentication (making samba the domain >> controller)? > > Sorry about the fogginess. > > Currently the Linux server uses a Windows domain controller for > authentication. We now want authentication to be handled by the Linux > server using the Linux server users, groups and passwords. We don't > intend the Linux server to be a domain controller. The Windows > computer clients would still be authenticated to the network by the > Windows domain controller server and be part of the domain. However > we want them to have to enter their separate Linux server ID and > password when connection to shares on the Linux server. > > Alan What you describe sounds nonsensical to me. Sounds like you want to use Linux authentication in addition to a windows domain controller. That'd be like trying to use 2 different domain controllers together. I don't see how you can keep your windows DC and still have samba do authentication separate from that (unless you do peer-to-peer type authentication, which would be security = share). I think samba is designed to either work independently (entirely), or work together with a domain controller. I could be wrong though (it's been known to happen). ;) You might want to read up on samba server types: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ServerType.html -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss