[WBEL-users] Trying to use Samba...

[Jim Wildman]

There was just a project announced on freshmeat.net this week that did
this exact thing....

http://freshmeat.net/projects/sadms/

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, [iso-8859-1] Jesús García González wrote:

> Thank you Phill for your answer.
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> Still my problem remains. You see, I run an about 300 user network mainly
> using Win2k Servers, and I have little Linux background (but I’m working
> hard to remedy that).
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> I needed to implement an Apache Server with support for PHP and MySQL for
> the software development staff. That done, I was also assigned to implement
> a file repository (just a bunch of shared directories) for users in
> different departments to store information in the large HD’s in that server.
> So my problem arises that all my users have their respective accounts in the
> Win2k Active Directory. To maintain both sets of passwords (the original
> accounts + the smbpasswd –a accounts) would be a huge task, that’s why I’m
> trying to find a solution that would allow a user request to the Samba
> server be validated against the the ADS. So far I’ve found some
> documentation on how to allow Linux users login in the ADS instead of the
> Linux server, but that’s not really my goal. I’d greatly appreciate any
> help, or suggestion as to where get help.
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> Best wishes,
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> J.
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Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE                                jim@rossberry.com
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