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

[Joe Brouhard]

> 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.
>
>

We do this very thing here at the City Hall...

Might want to consider using WinBind.. it was designed with Windows 2000
in mind.

It's distributed by SAMBA themselves, i think, so you might want to look
into that???

Also, you can tie SAMBA into a LDAP directory structure.. there's quite a
few HOW-TO's out there I'm sure.  The Linux Documentation Project would be
a good place to start.

-- 
Joe Brouhard
Chief of Information Services
Kansas City Open Source Consultants
jbrouhard@kcosc.com