Mark, Firstly, you will solve a lot by using "security = domain" and then joining the machine to the domain as described in the Samba HOWTO.
Secondly, Samba-3.0.0 will make life much better. It is due into Beta test within days. - John T. On Wed, 21 May 2003, Mark Schubert wrote: > Dear Samba, > > We have a global NT network with multiple domains. We have a unix server > from which we are just wanting to share some directories to the NT users. At > this stage we use security=server and point the server to a domain > controller. This works great for authentication in the local domain because > our NT usernames match our unix usernames, so the users don't even need to > enter a Samba specific username/password when opening up a share. > > However, for the other domains to get access to the server we are having > some trouble. Usually we can see the server in the browse list, however we > get errors like "Network path not found", or get a prompt for a > username/password when trying to open a share. > > With my scant understanding of NT domains I believe this has to do with NT > trusts. Is this true? Is there an easy way to approach this, bear in mind we > really don't want to use smbpasswd because then the users need to remember > and maintain another password. > > If the only way is to fix up the NT domains, what is required to do this? > > Please reply directly to me as I am not on the list. > > TIA, > Mark > > -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
