I hate to answer myself but I went to the samba.org web site and here is
the info you need. It was one click off the front page of their web
site.
Make sure to read this ENTIRE page including the example at the bottom
of the page.
http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/winbindd.8.html
More good info
http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/wbinfo.1.html
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 12:50, David Mandala wrote:
> Goto www.samba.org join the SAMBA maillist and ask. Winbind is part of
> the SAMBA suite.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Davidm
>
> On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 12:44, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> > Ah, if only it was so easy. That is indeed the correct high-level answer
> > since SAMBA will have to be involved if this is to work at all. However, I
> > am usually pretty good at RTFMs and searching for existing docs and I
> > typically won't post a question to PLUG (or other Linux forums) without first
> > exhausting all of my other avenues.
> >
> > I'm at the point where pointers to more places to search just won't help since
> > I've doubtlessly already searched there. I need links to actual documents
> > that describe how real people did exactly what I'm describing (0% theory,
> > 100% practice).
> >
> > On Wednesday 02 July 2003 12:16 pm, David Mandala wrote:
> > > Very possible, the SAMBA package has what you need and it more the
> > > likely already installed. Go to www.samba.org and look at the faq's. You
> > > want to convert the Linux box to windows authentication and that has
> > > worked for at least 2 years now.
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 12:06, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> > > > Does anybody know of a case-study or HOWTO on fully integrating a Linux
> > > > workstation into an existing Windows NT domain?
> > > >
> > > > I've got CUPS using the network printer using
> > > > smb://username:password@DOMAIN and mounting shares back and forth works
> > > > great... but there are a couple of problems doing things like that:
> > > >
> > > > 1. CUPS requires you to setup the printer to use an individual's domain
> > > > credentials. If there are multiple users on the machine, that one
> > > > person's credentials are using used. Not to mention that the username
> > > > and password are freely viewable using 'ps' while printing.
> > > >
> > > > 2. Login user names and passwords are different between the Linux and
> > > > Windows boxes. Yes, you can manually keep them in sync... but it's a
> > > > pain.
> > > >
> > > > What I would like to do is make the Windows domain think that my Linux
> > > > box is just another host in its domain. That means several things:
> > > >
> > > > 1. Login using the NT domain server as the authenticator. Mounting
> > > > shares will no longer need a password since it's already supplied.
> > > > 2. A Linux user will be able to print to a network printer in the domain
> > > > using their own credentials (but hopefully not have to supply them again
> > > > since they are already logged in).
> > > >
> > > > Is this even possible? If so, were can I find docs on how this is done?
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