On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 10:00, Kevin wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 20:04, Craig White wrote:
> > that's what winbind is for - to bind users & groups from the Windows
> > domain to the local unix system so that they are recognized. Otherwise
> > only local users will work and that ain't gonna happen.
>
> Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, it looks like winbind still requires
> a M$ domain. From Chapter 21 of the samba manual
> (http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/winbind.html):
>
> "Winbind unifies UNIX and Windows NT account management by allowing a
> UNIX box to become a full member of an NT domain. Once this is done the
> UNIX box will see NT users and groups as if they were ânativeâ UNIX
> users and groups, allowing the NT domain to be used in much the same
> manner that NIS+ is used within UNIX-only environments."
>
> I have no M$ servers here, so I can't join the samba/winbind box to an
> existing M$ domain. I'll have to create a pseudo-domain with a samba
> PDC. However, it sounds like I will still need winbind to make the
> integration happen between the samba PDC box and the worm2K boxen
> joining the pseudo-domain.
>
> I think I'm making this too confusing. My new gentoo box should be
> finished installing by the time I get home tonight. I'll emerge the
> latest samba on there tonight and see if I can get the wormden to join
> the pseudo-domain with (and without) winbind.
>
> If anyone is interested, I'll post a summary.
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You are not really making sense - why not have a PDC - use samba for
that if you don't.
At either rate (with or without a PDC) a samba user is also a local user
on Linux. Use webmin <
http://www.webmin.com> and configure samba to sync
users so that if you use webmin Users and Groups, it automatically
creates the samba user. The use of winbind allows you to automagically
create the local user profile via the SMB user profile from the PDC. The
last alternative is user mapping - /etc/samba/smbusers which maps samba
users to local unix users.
Craig
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