> There's a hook in the Samba config for a script you run when you add > a user. man smb.conf should be able to find it pretty quickly. The > idea is that you run the script and it does all the updates. The > annoying part is, as you've realized, keeping smbpasswd in sync with > Linux login and so forth, and the best ultimate solution is to use > LDAP as a back end, and use PAM to authenticate pretty much all > services against it, rather than messing with multiple manually- > synced local authentication stores at all.
Or configure Samba to get all it's authentication information from the Windows PDC -- auth=server. See the Samba 3.x HOW-TO for details. The script thing is really for the case of when a new Linux user gets created and you want home directories to get created, etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
