[aklug] Re: samba authentication questions.

Quoting Lee <lee@afabco.org>:

> Hi Folks,
>
> A while back someone did some work on getting windows xp clients to =20
> authenticate using
> samba as the authenticator. I thought I had saved off the =20
> discussion...apparently
> not. So...
>
> 1. Are there any links to those results, or even a recent howto?
>
> 2. Can the authentication be set up so that when a user changes his =20
> password on his
> local machine, it changes it for that user on the whole (samba =20
> served) domain?
>
> 2a. Does that password also get changed for the -linux- /etc/passwd =20
> at the same
> time? So that if the user changes the password in one place, it's =20
> changed everywhere
> else, and unity is maintained?

This is possible, but there are many questions. Like do you care if =20
you are using LDAP or not?

Did your search on the aklug archives produce anything?

Mike B.

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Received on Mon Mar 9 18:03:19 2009