Michael L Torrie wrote: > When they talk about "Using Samba to join a Windows NT domain," they are > most likely talking about joining a samba server to a domain (which > could be another samba server), which allows samba to authenticate users > and perform rid mappings using the domain. This is useful if you wanted > to set up a samba server to serve windows shares in an existing domain. > But it has nothing to do with Unix authentication and unix uids, gids, > home directories, etc. For that you need winbind.
Okay, thanks for the information. > If you really want to implement a solution that properly serves both > windows and unix machines, you'll need to use LDAP (where Samba uses > LDAP as it's store also). Correct me if I am wrong, but LDAP is simply an information storage service? How would I go about using LDAP to do secure encrypted password authentication? You wouldn't happen to know of any really good tutorials/"how to" for this, would you? Thanks, Kenneth /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
