Thanks Patrick. I'll read up on winbind.
-T Quoting Patrick Gunerud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It sounds like your best option for using samba and Win2k server is to > setup the Win2k server as the PDC and join each machine running samba to > the domain. Then use winbind to allow the machines running samba to > authenticate windows users. As I understand it you do not need to add > the accounts on each machine it will use the ones from the Windows PDC. > > Patrick > > User Tkrin wrote: > > >Hello all. I have four NT servers that are all in dire need of upgrading. > What > >I want to do is replace three of those w/ samba and leave the fourth Win2K > due > >to some internal apps that require IIS. The basic layout is each server is > a > >PDC, for what reason I can not figure out completely, I inhereted them > recently. > > There are trust relationships among them and users access data across all > four > >domains. > > > >I'm not really sure what my best options are for setting this up. It would > be > >nice to have the Win2k box be a PDC and the samba servers be BDC's, but > that > >functionality does not seem to be available yet. I would like to have some > way > >of centralize authentication, maybe NIS, Kerberos, or something so that a > give > >user does not have to be added to each server and when they change their > >password, it changes for the other servers as well. > > > >Is this possible? If there is any documentation any of you would suggest, > >pages, books, white papers, etc., please let me know. > > > >Thanks all! > > > >-T > > > >------------------------------------------------- > >This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ > > > > ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
