[Lvlug] Even more Samba problems

[Martin DiViaio]

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On the 14th day of June in the year 2004 you wrote:

> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:42:00 -0400
> From: "Ferguson, Scott W" <swf001 at lvc.edu>
> To: lvlug at thelinuxlink.net
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> Subject: [Lvlug] Even more Samba problems
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> So complication #2 with my Samba network...Everybody's password is done 
> via the company's network (all user profiles and passwords are remotely 
> stored) and the employees all have to change their password on a regular 
> basis (every few months).


How? Windows NT DC? Win2k Active Directory? (Mixed or dedicated 
mode?) Novell?


> Now it's my understanding with Samba, that the local Linux account has
> to be exactly the same as the remote Windows account; meaning the
> username and password have to match to be able to log into the Samba
> network.  Since this job is only a summer internship I'm going to need
> some way for everybody to continue to be able to log into the network
> drive after I'm gone, since I won't be able to change the passwords on
> the Linux box, and their passwords _have_ to change.  Any way to make
> this happen on it's own?


If you are running Active Directory, you could set up OpenLDAP (which can 
pull from AD) and authenticate to the server using PAM. I've never done 
this but I have been told that it's possible.

Samba can authenticate to a Windows NT DC on it's own. (Win2k domains need 
to run in mixed mode.)

I'm not sure what you would do about Novell.