Tom, Personally I believe LDAP is an excellent backend database for Samba, especially if you are looking for Single-Sign-On capabilities. PC's do not have to join the Samba Domain in order to still gain domain access, however users will be prompted for username and password when accessing a share for your Samba Domain. One way around this is to use the same username and password for your LDAP database as you do currently for their machine logon accounts.
Also, in order to find samba shares on Samba/LDAP servers with a different domain your current WINS servers should be able to find the new domain and list it within your Network List so you should be able to browse to them. Otherwise you can use DNS. Good Luck! James -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Haerens Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 1:00 AM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] SAMBA+LDAP in a Workgroup Hi, This may be a dumb question (I'm new with this), but is it possible to use SAMBA in combination with LDAP in a Workgroup? All the manuals and examples I can find, are talking about Domains and PDCs. I have to set up a new Samba server and checkout LDAP but I'm not allowed to change the Workgroup settings... Now we use smbpasswd... Is LDAP worth the effort and time? Kind Regards, ToHa -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba