Chris, My understanding is the user authentication is checked against a domain with "security=domain" option and the subsequent encrypted password options.
The group permissions are checked against servers groups. This ensures the user and group permissions are set correctly. I have no experience with LDAP and samba so I cannot give any suggestions or information there. HTH On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 20:18, Chris Bullock wrote: > I have a quick question about authentication of samba shares. If you can tell > samba to look at an NT server for user authentication why can't you tell it > to look at that same server for group authentication or can you? I have an > NT domain that has serveral groups defined but since we have all our file > sharing on Samba servers the groups serve no purpose. Everytime you create a > samba share, you have to create a group on the local machine and edit the > group file so that the appropriate people have access to the group files. I > know that maybe LDAP is possibly an answer but we are not using that for > domain authentication, so does anyone have any suggestions? > TIA > --cgb -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
