Thanks Balan & Varun, which means i have to identify two kinds of users that is who will be reqiring either SMB or not ? And those who will not be requiring SMB may use guest account in SMB ?
-Yash On Tuesday 05 March 2002 02:01 am, Varun Varma wrote: > Dear Yash, > > The Linux Samba implementation has a feature that lets you keep Unix/Samba > passwords in sync. > > On a typically configured Red Hat System, you can edit /etc/samba/smb.conf > and search for the following section: > > <quote> > # You may wish to use password encryption. Please read > # ENCRYPTION.txt, Win95.txt and WinNT.txt in the Samba documentation. > # Do not enable this option unless you have read those documents > encrypt passwords = yes > smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd > > # The following are needed to allow password changing from Windows to > # update the Linux sytsem password also. > # NOTE: Use these with 'encrypt passwords' and 'smb passwd file' above. > # NOTE2: You do NOT need these to allow workstations to change only > # the encrypted SMB passwords. They allow the Unix password > # to be kept in sync with the SMB password. > unix password sync = Yes > passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u > </quoute> > > While this might not be exactly what you are looking for [specifically, > this method requires you to maintain two sets of users - one for Unix and > one for Samba], it does help a lot. This way, whenever a user changes his > password through Windoze, his Unix password would also get updated and > vice- versa. > > Regards, > -Varun > > > Dear All, > > I have hetrogeneous network of win2k, windoz NT ,win98 and windows > > XP. > > Now i have installed mail server on sendmail, with squid and now > > running samba in his own domain. > > I have made the POP3 users as the system level accounts. i.e PAM, > > > > NOW what i want to ask is that is it possible that all the windoz m/c > > gets authenticated for login into the windows , browsing (through > > squid) ,and email (already happening ...) through linux m/c which uses > > PAM. > > > > But samba does has it's own authenticating module SMB, > > Can it be configured to use PAM authentication or any one of them. > > Please assist something so that all the authentication is through PAM > > or SMB only. > > > > Thanks & regards > > -Yash > > > > ================================================ > > To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in > > subject header To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with unsubscribe in subject header Archives are available at > > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org > > ================================================= ================================================ To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in subject header To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org =================================================
