Hello, Some time ago I used POWER5 machine with AIX and NFS for storage purposes, mainly for my private cloud. Then I decided I need SMB share apart of my DC and win file servers on that same machine for some big images. I crawl the internet and found that samba can be used as standalone server and the user authentication can be forwarded to my dc, without adding the samba server in the domain at all. I believe my config was something like this:
[global] workgroup = DOMAIN.COM encrypt passwords = yes security = server password server = dc.domain.com The only downside to this setup is that users must be created on the server running samba server - for example if you have user winuser45 in the domain you must create user with the same name in the OS running the samba server. I wanted only 10 users to have access to that share, so it was easy. I hope this information will help in some way, GL. On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Karl Karlsson <[email protected]>wrote: > Den 15 dec 2013 07:56 skrev "Byron Klippert" <[email protected]>: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm looking at options for sharing machine resources > > (drives/directories/files) over LAN between OpenBSD server and Windows7 > > clients. > > > > The Windows7 clients already belong to a corporate domain system, and my > > lack of experience with Samba is telling me not to converge the two. > > > > My first choice is NFS, but... Windows7 Pro 64-bit doesn't seem to have > > a NFS client built-in. All the alternatives I've tried cost money or > > suck (or both). > > > > > > Questions to the list... > > > > - what, besides ftp/http can I use to get as close to a "shared" disk > > over LAN? > > > > - can I share a drive using Samba without interfering with the existing > > domain system? > > > > > > The LAN I'm running the OpenBSD server on is a different subnet and > > accessed over WiFi. The Windows7 clients access the domain over > > Ethernet. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > Byron Klippert > > [email protected] > > c. 867-336-1306 > > > If you can live with the lack of security then an anonymous samba would do > it for you.
