People don't like having to enter passwords all the time. Another reason
for using a domain.
People especially need to enter a valid username and password when they
are members of a Domain. The PDC and BDC(s) check for proper
authentication on the CentOS samba share; because, your CentOS samba share
is a member of the Domain, ( security = domain ). I believe, however,
that your users don't need to enter a valid username and password;
because, you have marked the share named "Public" as [ public = yes ]. I
would expect that you wouldn't even need to enter a new Linux username and
password for each user accessing the public share.
This avoids the problem of maintaining hundreds of usernames and password,
but it does not go without sacrifices in other areas.
Domain members get authenticated when they log into their Windows boxes.
Thereafter they don't have to re-enter credentials when accessing shares.
Since "Guest" is disabled for /Public on SPOCK, the only people who can log
into it are people who have valid domain user credentials.
I have just one case of a Mac user who doesn't log into the domain when the
computer boots; that's the one case I have to address.
Thanks very much.
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org
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