----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Eduardo Sousa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 9:41 PM Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba Trusts Relationship - Users map
On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 21:00 -0200, Eduardo Sousa wrote: > Sirs, > > I am studying about the Samba servers and I am with a doubt. > > I have achieved to configure the trust relationship between two servers, > althought I could only log users that would exist in those two domains > (trusting and thrusted). > > Observing the logs I have noticed that Samba could not authenticate the users > that were not common, because it could not create a users locally. > > Using the chmod a+s at the archive /usr/sbin/useradd I could make that the > user could be created normally. ---- this shouldn't be necessary ---- Ok I know. But without it, authetication doesn´t works correctly. > > My doubts are: > > - Why is there the need to create the user in the local domain? ---- because the samba developers thought it necessary for samba to work within the native system of users/privileges ---- This is obvious. However it does not clarify me technical. I would like to better understand about this necessity. Then I will be capable to understand and to resolve this problem. > > - Is there any other way I could get to authenticate such users without > having to create them using root (chmod a+s useradd)? ---- there is some fairly extensive documentation on usage http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/winbind.html ---- Thanks I will try to use this text. Craig -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
