n Mon, 6 Sep 2004 17:58:26 +0200, Joachim Schwendtner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > > I am newbie in configuring samba and I have special question: > > in our school we have one server (debian woody) which hosts the mail > server (exim) - this server can be reached from the internet. > the second server (debian woody fileserver) is not reachable from the > internet. this server hosts the home directories of our users (samba). > the user-directories and the mail-adresses have the same structures: > > mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > home: /home/prenome.surname > and there should only be ONE password! > > when I add oder delete users I use webmin on the mailserver. is it > possible, to share the passwd file, that I have only ONE user database > for mailserver (192.168.23.1) AND fileserver (192.168.23.2)?
samba also uses a smbpasswd file - so it gets a bit trickier these are quick and off the top of my head - but there are a few solutions: 1-you can modify webmin so it makes a call a creates/deletes the samba users 2-you can convert exim and samba to use LDAP for authentication 3-you could change it so you modify users on the samba server using webmin, and then rsync the passwd file to the exim machine number 1 would probably be the simplest > > joachim > > -- > 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
