Unix and Windows/Samba servers both store passwords in a one-way
encrypted format. So when you authenticate to a server, you type in
your password, the server encrypts it and compares it to the encrypted
version it has it is password database.This is is important
since your encrypted p
At Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:38:39 -0400 gaiseric.van...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> According to how you have described your environment, whether or not you
> use LDAP for Samba's backend, your users will still need corresponding
> unix accounts AND will still have separate unix and windows
> passwords.
According to how you have described your environment, whether or not you
use LDAP for Samba's backend, your users will still need corresponding
unix accounts AND will still have separate unix and windows
passwords.If you use ldap there will be separate fields for the
different passwords.
I am trying to things up to allow a *few* select users on a small
number of MS-Windows boxes to write to a couple of directories on a
Linux server. Most of the users on the MS-Windows boxes will only have
anonymous (guest) read-only access to one directory and anonymous
(guest) access to the print
Why not create an admin user in the ldap server which only has read
access to
the samba attributes of the user as well as the uid and group info.
Then make that
user only have those privileges from the specific IP of the other samba
server.
Duncan
Matthew Crites wrote:
Hello all. I hav
Hi,
isn't it possible to join the server to the domain and set security to
domain or server?!?
Regards Stefan
Matthew Crites schrieb:
> Hello all. I have a Samba PDC server working great already. However
> on another host on the network I would like to setup a Samba server
> that authenticates
Hello all. I have a Samba PDC server working great already. However
on another host on the network I would like to setup a Samba server
that authenticates to the same LDAP server that my Samba PDC is using.
However I want to do this anonymously without telling the second
server the admin passwor
