They use a daemon called winbindd that knows to talk to the nt server to authenticate users/groups. It works fine on linux, but it has some kinks as far as working for solaris (i.e., does not show all nt groups, requires a work-around to have passwd command not whine about the winbind entry put into nsswitch.conf). You would put in smb.conf if your nt domain was INS, for example, valid users = INS+Kosborne or something like valid groups = @"INS+Domain Users". On my Solaris box, Domain Users is one of the groups that does not work with winbind. I made another group and added users I wanted to give access to so I could specify nt groups that would be allowed access to one of my shares. There is a few annoying setup steps involved with getting it to work that are not well documented (e.g., force compile stuff in source/nsswitch to make .so share libraries, cp or link them into /usr/lib with .1 and .2 endings on them, etc.).
David -----Original Message----- From: Kristyan Osborne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 11:13 AM To: Samba (E-mail) Subject: [Samba] Samba 3.0 No user accounts Hi, After reading the notes on Samba 3.0, I noticed that it said unix user accounts do not have to be created, as samba can handle that. Did I read this correctly? If so does anyone have any details on how this is going to work. Cheers ------------- Kristyan Osborne IT Assistant Manager Longhill High School ------ Computers are like airconditioners: They stop working properly if you open windows. Win95: A 32-bit patch for a 16-bit GUI shell running on top of an 8-bit operating system written for a 4-bit processor by a 2-bit company who cannot stand 1 bit of competition. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
