On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Marcus Birkin wrote:
Doesn't winbind just get users/groups from a PDC (or Samba) for use in Linux.. I need other way round eg. Linux is master, samba is slave
Yes, winbind does do it the other way around. Not sure how you coerce Samba into doing this though, because on my distro (Mandrake) it's set up that way to start with. If it helps, I could send you a sample smb.conf file (although there's a lot of other junk in there as well).
One thing you will need to do is force the Windows stations to use
On Saturday, October 27, 2001 7:57 PM Michael Brown wrote: plain
text passwords. See, for example, all the *_PlainPassword.reg files in the docs/ directory of the Samba documentation (probably in /usr/share/doc/samba-VERSION/docs).
Not really. Winbind uses (and unless I missed something last time I looked, requires) encrypted passwords on the wire. And if you actually don't mind unencrypted passwords (though I certainly would) then you don't need Windbind at all. Just don't set a password server in your smb.conf, and Samba will authenticate using the passwd/shadow files of the host it's running on (and if you want pseudo-PDC authentication by this route, you can use NIS to make those files the master authetication source for all your Linux boxes). But why do you want to make Linux authentication primary in this way? Michael --------------------------------------------------------- Michael Beddow http://www.mbeddow.net/ XML and the Humanities page: http://xml.lexilog.org.uk/ Linux in Schools: http://linux.lexilog.org.uk/ The Anglo-Norman Dictionary http://anglo-norman.net/ ---------------------------------------------------------