On Sun, January 18, 2009 12:14, Ray Clark wrote: > Wow. That would be awesome. Some questions stemming out of things I have > been reading to try to figure this out: > > Do I need to join a workgroup (smbadm join -w rnscnet)? What are the > implications of joining or not joining?
I seem to have missed the beginning of this, but I've been converting from Samba to CIFS myself on a home NAS system, so I've been working with this. As I understand it, you either need to be in a domain (meaning having some system functioning as primary domain controller, and your system joining that domain), or else you join a workgroup (whatever name the other systems have established). > Do I not need to create smb passwords any more by adding the PAM line and > re-running passwd on each account? Well, the PAM line causes normal password changes to *also* create smb passwords. Once that line is in, the SMB passwords will remain in sync with the system passwords so long as the changes are made through normal PAM mechanisms like the passwd command. You'll find an smbpassword file somewhere (system currently down running memtest, I've got some kind of hardware trouble going on). Also -- I discovered the hard way that the smbpasswd file caches the UID. So if you ever change the UID of a user, be sure to change it all places! (I had to do that to connect to a previously existing zpool with lots of user files on it). -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
