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

[Edward Rudd]

Yes, you can have Samaba authenticate off of the W2k AD, and even have
samba auto create accounts as users browse to the system.. This is
really a Samba specific issue and not a WBEL issue however, so you would
probably receive better support by going to the samba mailing lists
(samba.org). Or using your favorite IRC client and connecting to
irc.freenode.net and joining the #samba channel.

On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 07:50, 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).
> 
> 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,
> 
> J.
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