A couple questions about how authentication works in Samba: -Is there a way to authenticate to a Samba PDC that does not require machine and (domain) user accounts to be in the /etc/passwd file (- a way other then LDAP or NIS)?
-A follow up to that - is what is the purpose of requiring machines/users in both the /etc/passwd file and the smbpasswd file? - i read something about needing to resolve the machines/users but not a full explaination. To me it seems that if I'm authenticating against Samba that's all it should need to do - it's not like it's converting the NTLM hash to crypt or something right? (since i can have different UNIX/Samba passwds) Basically the problem I'm trying to solve is to create an NT 4-style domain w/ Samba, but not creating UNIX accounts on the PDC machine for the Windows domain users. I only need Windows machines to authenticate to this domain. If there's a way to fake out Samba and point it to another file besides /etc/passwd that would work I think....just a thought. I've also thought of AD/Kerberos but that is not an option either in this environment. I've googled a bit for anything on the /etc/passwd issue but didn't turn anything up, other then using LDAP or NIS (which aren't options) and I didn't really see anything in the Samba docs - so any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated. I've also looked into the PCNetlink, but that does not seem to be well supported. This is for Samba 3.0 running as a NT4-style PDC on Solaris 2.8. Thanks -Bill ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
