Hello,
I've been Googling and O'Reillying around this problem for the last week without success, so I'm either stupid or it's not possible. My money's still on stupid.
Can someone confirm that I can't do what I want to do:
- Have a SuSE 9.1 Linux box running Samba 3.0 exporting shares by SMB.
- Have users log into Windows boxes running a NetWare client, authenticating by NDS to a
Netware 6.5 server.
- Have the Windows users mount SMB shares with an encrypted password that is
authenticated by Samba against the NetWare server, either using NDS or LDAP.
If I've understood what I've read so far, a Samba server receiving an encrypted password with a mount request must have a local smbpasswd file to validate it. Is there really no mechanism for passing the authentication buck to an NDS or LDAP server?
If this is true, it looks like my options are:
- Keep using our outdated, flaky NFS to Netware bridge until it drives me insane,
- Use plain-text passwords with the mount requests, or,
- Have separate local passwords on the Samba server.
Any suggestions gratefully received.
Chris -- Dr Chris Richardson - sysadmin, Structural Biology Section, icr.ac.uk
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