If you have a Windows of Samba machine that is not a domain member,
having the workgroup name match the domain name will make browsing for
resources easier.
If you have Windows or Samba machine that is not a domain member, using
the same password for the local account as the domain accounts should
not be essential but should make life easier. If the passwords don't
match, you may sometimes need to use the "net use ....." on the windows
machine to disconnect from the samba server and then reconnect with the
correct credentials (e.g. SAMBASERVER\yourname rather that
DOMAINNAME\yourname.)
If you samba server already has local unix acounts defined, and you
want to join the samba server to the domain, you will have to decide how
to either phase out the local unix accounts or make sure the uid's
between the local and domain accout accounts match up.
On 01/28/2011 03:10 PM, Chris Weiss wrote:
at the most basic level a domain is a workgroup with a central auth
server, so yes, you set the samba workgroup to the domain
you can manually maintain linux users, which you will find fiddly and
tedious, or you can join the samba server to the domain as well and
have it use the central auth server too
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:57 PM, J. L. Cabral<[email protected]> wrote:
Dear, I've seen an implementation where the Windows desktops belong to
"Company.com" domain and the Samba server was a stand-alone server
with workgroup = "SALES", and Windows clients access to Samba
resources succesfully.
I mean here the Samba's workgroup is different from Windows' domain,
so is this implementation ok ???
Thanks again
JeLo
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Bob Miller<[email protected]> wrote:
On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 15:01 -0300, J. L. Cabral wrote:
Dear, If I have a Windows XP box joined to a Domain called "Company"
with a user "Jelo" I as you:
Do I have to put Workgroup = Company in smb.conf ???
Yes.
And do I have to use the same passwords for the Windows and
Linux/Samba users ???
In a domain context, this question doesn't make sense to me. You don't
really have windows users in a domain, you have domain users.
I found just about everything I needed to know about samba and domains
here:
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/
Thanks a lot,
JeLo
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Bob Miller<[email protected]> wrote:
What can be the problem ??? Do I have to use for Samba the same
password as used in Windows or not ???
I have found that it is just easier to use the same credentials for each
user on all machines in a workgroup. Windows is pretty quirky about
when it will allow you to use alternate credentials, in my experience,
and Windows always prefers to use the credentials of the user who is
logged in.
Also, check your smb.conf, there are directives that can lock you out
regardless of correct user credentials or file permissions, (valid users
might be there without your user listed, for example).
Thanks a lot,
JeLo
Bob Miller
334-7117/660-5315
http://computerisms.ca
[email protected]
Network, Internet, Server,
and Open Source Solutions
Bob Miller
334-7117/660-5315
http://computerisms.ca
[email protected]
Network, Internet, Server,
and Open Source Solutions
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