Quoting John H Terpstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Bill, > > Have you looked at the Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf that ships with > Samba-3.0.0? > > The chapter "Account Information Databases" answers your questions. Please > let me know specifically what has not been well enough explained. What > needs to be better documented?
Well - the begining of that section says: "Samba-3 does not support Non-UNIX Account (NUA) operation for user accounts. Samba-3 does support NUA operation for machine accounts." So I guess that's possibly half of my problem solved. I gather that even w/ tdbsam, mysqlsam or xmlsam the /etc/passwd entries are still required for user accounts, but it seems that xmlsam is not a functional backend. So it seems that the only way to do away w/ having Samba accts (users, machines) in /etc/passwd is to use ldap authentication for both Samba as well as the OS itself. Maybe I'm missing something? Basically what I'm looking for is a way to have a unix box provide the NT Domain service to a group (uh domain) of NT/2k servers, but have all the authenticaton/accts/etc be compeletly self-contained in that service, and have no correlation to the OS authentication/accts/etc - which is guess is the NUA capability. So maybe my question should be when will NUA be ready? Thanks, -Bill ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba