To get a functional samba server setup (and I mean a decent one), all one has to do is:
1)Change the workgroup (this can be done with the samba drakwizard). The drakwizard tells you the next step, which is to 2)assign an smbpasswd for the users Unfortunately there is no easy way (besides linuxconf, which I don't like, and webmin, which has weird ways of doing this) to do that easily. userdrake already sets linux passwords, can it be amended to set smb passwords (smbpasswd -a <user> <password> would work, but not so secure, I don't know if there are better ways). Then, the wizard could tell you to set it in userdrake, and we would have pretty seamless setup. (We still need a replacement for chkauth, since it would be cool to be able to setup pam_smbpass, which would change the user's smbpasswd whenever they changed their linux password ..). Even better would be the ability to set the user's smbpasswd in LDAP, but that would also require adding a few more attributes. I am sure some other features (mail settings etc) for LDAP would be appreciated too, since most tools for LDAP, such as gq, aren't user managers, but glorified ldapsearch/ldapadd/ldapmodify (ie you need to know the entire schema to use them). But I guess that since some operations wouldn't be available without LDAP it's not too necessary. If someone want more details on how to accomplish the LDAP side, let me know .. Regards, Buchan -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
