Hi, I have a question about Samba's capability. I couldn't find answer from web searches so want to try it here.
We use samba as file server in a mixed mode w2k active directory domain. The problem is that each time a user changes his/her windows password, admins have to update samba password manually. We want to avoid this, and want Samba to automatically sync the user password with the directory server. I checked winbind, but it seems to give all domain users access to the samba server. We would like to limit the samba account to only a few selected windows users. We want them to deal only with the windows account without having to ask admins to update the smbpasswd. >From web searches, there's no clear picture of what the possibilities are. It appears if I use 'encrypt passwords' option, I have to keep a local copy of smbpasswd, and automatic sync is impossible. (We don't want to use plaintext passwords.) My question is, does anyone know a way to let Samba do automatic sync with windows passwords? I wonder if moving to samba 3.0 will solve this problem. Does anyone have some experience in this regard? Thanks in advance. Regards, Ben -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
