On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 07:39, Rick Segeberg wrote:
> I have been working to get a Samba 3 (alpha 21) on Red Hat 8.0 to work 
> with our current Windows 2000 ADS.  This is "pure" ADS (ie. no compatibility 
> mode).  Our desire is to have various samba servers join the domain
> and use the domain to authenticate users to the samba servers.  It's
> my understanding that winbind is necessary. 
>  
> I've followed lots of HOWTO's and various articles as well as search the 
> list archives and have not gotten it to work and have not found quite what 
> I am looking for (although much has still been very helpful).  I was able to 
> successfully have the samba server join the domain (it shows up in
> ADS), and I can authenticate to the w2k box  from the samba box just
> fine.  But, I cannot authenticate back to samba box from a windows
> workstation (which is logged into the domain) unless I also have the
> login name and password in the smbpasswd file.  Also, when I try any
> of the wbinfo tests, they fail.

Which tests - and what exactly do you mean by 'fail'.  Are you really
sure you correctly joined the domain?

> I understand it's still in alpha and just to make sure I'm not trying 
> something that's not available/working yet, I need to know if this is
> possible.  So the question is:
>  
> Can a workstation in the ADS domain be authenticated to a samba 3 server 
> via W2K ADS (with no compatibility mode)?

Yes - shipping products are based on exactly this functionality.

You are going to need to give some more info on the join, and any
particular errors in the logs.  

Andrew Bartlett

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