Hey Jammie, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hall, Jammie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Samba users
> 2. issue #2 - user setup. do I have to setup each user this way. That is one of the most important issues to consider when deploying samba. As you need a samba _and_ a Linux-user for every Windows-user, there are always two topics to think about; how do I manage the Linux (OS) -users and how do I authentify the Windows-users. In short: How do I manage only _one_ userbase. I presume you use a NT4.0 as a PDC, so I will go from there. You have the following possibilities: -Create every user as Linux and smbpasswd user like you have described. You could write a simple shellscript to automate that task -Create the Linux users and let the authentification go against your PDC. You avoid the management of the samba users on the Linux/samba box. That is the preferred way to get rid of the management of the smbpasswd file. In smb.conf use "security = domain", "password server = <netbios_name_of_pdc>" and let the samba box join your domain. -Do the same as above and let samba create the Linux users when a user is trying to get to a share. Like that: "add user script = useradd -d /dev/null -s /bin/false %u" in your smb.conf. That will work for SuSE, adjust for other distris. Every user successfully authentified against your PDC will be created automagically as a Linux user. -Use the winbindd daemon, included since 2.2, to get users from the PDC. That is great! But use 2.2.3a due to memory leak in earlier versions. -You could also use the NIS server included in the "Services for UNIX 2.0" from M$. By the way, there is a wealth of docs out there...read the samba howto-collection, the online (or printed, of course...) version of "Using Samba" from O4Reilly and the man pages. Have fun, Goetz
