On 126, 05 06, 2009 at 11:18:52AM +0200, C?dric Laruelle wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I?m actually running samba 3 as a primary domain controller. The > workstations of my network are all running windows (some xp, some vista) and > use Outlook 2007 as a web client. > > Samba is set up with the following parameters : > > security = user > > passdb backend = tdbsam > > unix password sync = Yes > > domain master = yes > > domain logons = yes > > > > Everything works fine on samba side, meaning that the machines are part of > the domain, and users do authenticate correctly. > > > > For the moment, the users are getting their mail (pop3 or imap) through > dovecot (running on the same box as samba). > > Dovecot is configured with mechanisms = plain. > > I would like to secure it by using mechanisms = ntlm, but still using the > system users. > > I found much information on how to authenticate against an active directory, > but nothing that allows me to keep my actual authentication against system > users. Indeed, if I just change the mechanisms to ntlm, dovecot does not > start anymore complaining that ?NTLM mechanism can't be supported with given > passdbs?
You can authenticate your users via Samba's winbind daemon. Read more here: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/Mechanisms/Winbind > Any help would be much appreciated as I already tried the whole day > yesterday to get it working ? > > > > Best regards, > > > > C?dric Laruelle >