Re: [Samba] Samba w/o local users on Samba server?

[Robert Schuettler]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 12:08:49PM -0600, John H Terpstra wrote:

 What you are asking is: Can a Samba server be a domain member server or 
 client in a Windows NT4 domain, or in an Active Directory domain?

Yes and no. If we don't want to have a Windows-based server in the
picture, it looks like I'll need to configure a(nother) Samba server as
a PDC in order for the first one to join a domain. I'll give that a try
anyway ( and come back with more detailed questions later - if there
are any. ;-)

 Suggest you refer to chapter 7 of the book Samba-3 by Example (aka. 
 Samba-Guide). This chapter deals exclusively with this subject.

I'll do that. Thanks!

 You can obtain a copy of this book from:
   http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-Guide.pdf

Wow: June 6th, now June 9th; you're really keeping your documentation
up-to-(almost-today's-)date. 

 The information you provide above does not identify which of our 
 documentation 
 is deficient.

Don't worry, I didn't say it was defincient. All I said is that AFAICS
you always need to have local Linux/Unix users (and groups) with User
Level security.

| Currently domain level security in Samba does not free you from
| having to create local UNIX users to represent the users attached to
| your server. (...)

  from:
  The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide, 1st printing, p.74

Thanks for your reply! Cheers, Robert
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[Samba] Samba w/o local users on Samba server?

[Robert Schuettler]

Hi everyone,

is it possible to have a Samba server without creating local accounts
for users on that server?

Share level security doesn't count though. ;-) The idea is not to need
to create and update users on the Samba server itself (i.e. no local
users, no entries in /etc/passwd, etc).

The documentation says something about  Domain and ADS level security
being basically just forms of user level security, so - for the moment-
it looks to me as if there's no way around creating those local users.
Is that correct?

Wondering, Robert
 
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