Hi Paul, > you may have read the docu but... anyway replacing /etc/passwd is > achieved by a different NSS source (could be ldap, nis, whatever). If > you gonna use LDAP as SAM backend you don't need /etc/samba/smbpasswd > anymore. (you need nss_ldap and possibly pam_ldap from padl.com)
Fine. I am currently going through the 385 page Samba manual. Where can I find more info. about the other NSS sources? What are the advantages/disadvantages of using another one? With Samba 2.x we need to create the user in two places. I was just checking to see if we could now create the user in just one. Regards. "paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > John Brown wrote: > > Your answers have helped quite a bit. I understand a lot more now. > > > > These compromises are small issues compared to the benefits of Samba. We > > use Samba 2.x and we have benefitted from: > > > > Less expensive software > > Lower hardware requirements > > Significantly fewer reboots > > Greater stability > > Faster performance > > > > Many companies don't use group policy anyway. > > > > One last thing. We will be using OpenLDAP with Samba 3.0. I have > > downloaded the code and have read through the documentation on samba.org. > > > > How does the whole authentication thing work? Do we still need the > > /etc/passwd and /etc/samba/smbpasswd files? If so, are there any plans to > > have just one password database? > you may have read the docu but... anyway replacing /etc/passwd is > achieved by a different NSS source (could be ldap, nis, whatever). If > you gonna use LDAP as SAM backend you don't need /etc/samba/smbpasswd > anymore. (you need nss_ldap and possibly pam_ldap from padl.com) > > > > > I have read of people using the User Manager for Domains and Server Manager > > tools from Microsoft. Where can I get them and what version has been > > tested? > from microsoft? > > > > What are the differences between the sambaAccount and posixAccount > > objectclasses. Why is the posixAccount necessary? > see above, for every samba group/user/machine you need a corresponding > entity on the unix side to map access rights (filesystem). Think of > posixAccount as a template for a system user in your directory, > sambaAccount extends this object to hold the samba specific attributes. > > > > Regards. > > > greetings > paul > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
