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 havesecurity = 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
[Tim Holmes wrote] Craig and others:
Excellent suggestion, and I am currently working this through. I am
using the guide in the samba-HOW-TO document, in the fast start segment,
to set up a domain member server, as this describes precisely what I am
looking for. I have copied in the suggested smb.conf (thankfully I have
a spare server that is serving as a testbed), modified it slightly to
fit our domain (our domain name, proper netbios name, removing the
shares that don't apply etc) now I am trying to get things running.
I executed the net rpc join command supplying the proper credentials for our domain, and it successfully joined the domain
I started nmbd, and smbd, but when ever I try to start windbindd, I get an error that the command is not found. I am guessing that it means that the windbind daemon is not installed, but im not sure as I may be missing another concept someplace else -- can someone please point me in the right direction.
winbindd is part of the samba-common package and is installed in /usr/sbin. "service winbind start" should start it if you've got your PATH set properly (i.e. using "su -" and not just "su").
Paul.
