Re: [Samba] WINBIND configuration and NT Authentication

[Mikko Rautiainen]

I'll try to get the config files I have for you tomorrow, but they wont work in suse 7.2
They aply in madrake 9. I got locked out couple times too :)

The most important pam files are samba, system-auth(-winbind), and login.

Mikko


Chris McKeever wrote:

thanks for the reply..you got it with the pam configuration...would you
happen to have some working examples??  also, is there a way to restart PAM
after changes (say to the login and passwd files)


Thanks for those links


-----Original Message-----
From: Mikko Rautiainen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 3:53 AM
To: Chris McKeever
Subject: Re: [Samba] WINBIND configuration and NT Authentication


Hi,


Yes it's possible to authenticate users from win 2000 server with 
winbind. For me
the PAM configuration was the hardest part. I used mandrake 9 and it has 
a realy
good pre config. And if you want to modify the folder/file permissions 
from NT/W2k
PDC then don't use ReiserFS as the filesystem. Use either EXT3 or XFS. 
Mayby the
ReiserFS 4 will have the ACL support.
I have had dificulti
es with suse and samba. Like my suse8 home server 
needs a restart
after 2 days and I don't know the reason why. I just lose the connection 
to the samba.

So the winbind part was easy to make work in mandrake 9, just need to 
config smb.conf
right and thats about it. The PAM is a bit harder (to me at least). PAM 
is the key for the
linux end to understand to use the winbind connection. If not correctly 
cinfigured it can't
get the authentication from the Win NT/2k PDC.

Here are some links that was helpful for me.
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/pam-list/2001-10/0038.html
http://ma.ph-freiburg.de/tng/tng-users/2001-06/msg00025.html
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html (very helpful)

Hope these help

Mikko Rautiainen


Chris McKeever wrote:

Setup: 
	Suse 7.2, Samba 2.2.6
	Win 2K PDC

Project:
I would like to use winbind to authenticate users that do not have local
accounts on the linux machine for access to various file and print shares.
I have gotten winbind to successfully grab the user and groups from the NT
box (verified by getent passwd).  However, I have had little luck obtaining
the permission based file share that I would like.

Questions:
1.  Do users accessing the share need local accounts?
	a. if so, is there a way to export users from win2k into linux?
2.  Can you use NT groups in the smb.conf file to control access?
3.  The documentation on winbind
http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/man/winbindd.8.html almost makes it sound

as

if it may be possible to authenticate NT users and grant them login rights
(actual session login rights, not samba shares) to the linux machine.  Is
this true?  If so is there additional configuration to achieve this

assuming

quesiton 1 has been answered and setup properly?
4.  Does anyone know of further online winbind documentation?

Thanks in advance...

Chris McKeever