Will Samba support "fallback" to local domain for authentication of local users?
I joined a RHEL4 server running Samba 3.0.10-1.4E.11 to a Windows 2000/2003 mixed-mode domain today using "security = domain", after having run for many months in "security = user" mode. Authentication works fine for users defined in the Windows domain, but we have a few users (mainly on manufacturing equipment) who are not in the domain, and are defined in /etc/passwd and an old-fashioned smbpasswd file only. When mapping drives (these are old W2K clients), these users must now use "<servername>\<username>" for their username, or the server will try to authenticate to the domain and get a NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER error. I seem to recall that an old server we used to have that ran Samba 2.2.x in "security = domain" mode would try to authenticate against the domain first, then fall back to the smbpasswd file if that failed, so authentication of locally defined users was transparent. Is there a way to make Samba3 "fall back" to the smbpasswd file if the user is not in the Windows domain? I've experimented a bit with passdb backend, but I haven't seen any difference. Of course, I can just go to all the production equipment and remap the drives, but there are quite a few of them, and I'm trying to avoid the downtime. Thanks for any advice! Best Regards, Dave Windsor Robert Bosch LLC Team Leader, Test Systems Engineering: Hybrid ECU/TCU (AdP/MOE2.1) 4421 Highway 81 North Anderson, SC 29621 USA www.bosch.us <http://www.bosch.us> Tel: 1 (864) 260-8459 Fax: 1 (864) 260-8142 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba