On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 10:00 -0400, Tim Holmes wrote: > > I really hate to be daft here, but I am still not understanding > something: > > I want samba to accept the password that is supplied as part of the > connection from windows, when it does this, it should check against my > password server (the domain controller) instead of the smbpasswd file, > can someone point me in the right direction. I agree with the one > respondent that said that from a security standpoint it is very bad > practice to have each user give me their network password to enter into > the smbpasswd file, but I haven't been able to get samba to authenticate > against the domain, instead of the smbpasswd, so right now that's the > only recourse I have ---- samba has a lot of documentation - well done - probably the best of all open source projects http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/ has links to both the 'How-To' and the 'by Example' >From what you have stated above, I am gathering that you should have security = domain and winbindd set up but I didn't follow the thread from the start. Best to work this through so you get an understanding of it. Craig
