On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 14:54 +0000, Steve Blackwell wrote: > I know this may be a very simple question but I cant seem to find the > answer in the O'Reilly Samba book or from Google. > > When using Samba 2 (actual version 2.2.12) we had W2K domain users > authentication via the ADS to access Samba shares. The W2K users did not > actually have Unix accounts on the Samba server, we used the users.map > file to map the W2K account name to a guest Unix account.
> The only way I found to get the users to mount a Samba share is to create > a Unix account. I don't particularly want to create 600 Unix account for > users to access a couple of shares. The best option is to use winbindd, and it will cause the windows accounts to appear on the unix server. > Does anyone know how to get Samba 3 to act the same as Samba 2? Increases in correctness have caused some changes, but given the suggested mapping to 'ftp' above, perhaps you want the 'map to guest = bad user' option? I think there is another one for doing the same for authenticated users... Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Student Network Administrator, Hawker College http://hawkerc.net
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