Web based might be ok, but SWAT isn't much better than webmin in terms of being intuitive, and um.. "productive" for windows users. They don't really want to learn the ins and outs of Samba just to manage users - especially large volumes of users.... :)
Shawn
On Sunday 10 April 2005 03:36, Juan Alberto Cirez wrote:
R U Lookin' 4 a web-based tool...? Try SWAT
Shawn wrote:
Can anyone point me to a good Samba User Management tool, besides Webmin? (We've looked at it, and it's not quite as intuitive as my contact would like...).
Ideally, we'd like to just use the Windows user management tools, but have not yet found the "right" way to make this happen properly...
For me, I'm used to doing this at the command line, but they have a large number of users to manage. Oh, I should mention too - Samba is acting as the PDC.
Thanks for any tips.
Shawn
Shawn,
To get the Windows admin tools working, you need to switch from using the smbpasswd file to a database backend. I use the following configuration directive in smb.conf
passdb backend = tdbsam
After you change this directive, you need to use the pdbedit utility to initialize the database and migrate the user accounts from smbpasswd to tdbsam.
You also then need to map some linux groups to the special windows groups using the "net groupmap add" utility, for groups such as "Domain Admins" and "Domain Users"
Once this is done, it works really slick, you use the windows utils to add, remove, change user accounts and groups, you can also specify almost everything you could in a NT 4.0 domain... Individual logon scripts, user profile settings etc...
It has been a while since I set this up so I don't have the exact syntax of the commands handy, but I can help you out if you need more info...
Robert.
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