We run samba servers on Fedora and Solaris to allow access between the Windows network and the Unix world. our /etc/samba/smb.conf file contains (among other things) workgroup = our_domain_name netbiosname = ZHERC security = domain password server = our_PDC The unix box is then added to the domain with a variation on: net rpc join member -U some_admin_acct -w our_domain_name -S our_pdc Users who can access shares on this workstation need a UNIX account on this machine. In the Fedora case, it is in /etc/passwd. On the Solaris boxes it is defined to NIS+. You do not need to give them a real password if you don't want. That way they cannot actually log on the box. Also you don't have to add them to the smbpasswd file. Hope this helps Robert E. Styma Principal Engineer (DMTS) Lucent Technologies, Phoenix Email: stymar@xxxxxxxxxx / styma@xxxxxxxxxx Phone: 623-582-7323 Company: http://www.lucent.com Personal: http://www.swlink.net/~styma
