On Thursday 01 March 2007, Russell Jones wrote:
Hm. Don't quite follow you. What does Samba map from and to? Linux accounts, either in /etc/passwd et al or LDAP/Kerberos?
Yes, samab "maps to" some kind of local account. How that is set up is up to you. You can use traditional /etc/passwd or Ldap or a few other methods.
Samba has its own user database too, doesn't it?
It uses that to map windows login-ids/passwords to unix ones. But this disappears in an ldap setup, at least the way suse does it for SLES.
Is it necessary to set that up separately, or can you just use paswd/LDAP accounts directly? Ldap takes care of that if you use ldap, otherwise you still need it to map windows logins to local accounts on the linux box
My whole point for bringing this up is as one possible suggestion to get around the requirement for matching uid/gid numbers for a user on each linux machine when you use nfs. Also the performance of samba (not to mention the local network) has improved to the point where it is competitive with nfs. In fact I would be willing to bet that for larger numbers of users samba would be better than nfs but I'm just speculating, I have no hard numbers. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org