On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Gerhard Sittig wrote: [snip]
Best would be, if the user-data could also be included into samba (samba should act as an login-server for his domain)
This however should be perfectly possible, just export the SAM from NT, and import the hashes into /etc/smbpasswd, which you need anyway. But then there's no login to the Linux machine (POP3, FTP...).
Read "man 5 smb.conf" and search for "sync" and/or "password". When you feed samba with passwords (that is, provide them in the clear) it can set the "traditional" Unix password for you, too. That's BTW convenient - and easier to teach - for those users who prefer "graphical frontends" and are afraid of typing "passwd" in a terminal session. That's when they could use the means MS software provides.
That will only work if your Windows stations submit their password in cleartext, for which you need to change a registry setting on Win95 (upwards of OSR2 (?)) and NT4.0 (since SP3). I wouldn't really do that.
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