setup samba as Windows Domain Member

ateh · 06-04-2002, 06:38 PM

Hi.
I know how to setup linux (using samba) as member of a Windows Domain Controller. To do that I need to setup Linux user for every Windows domain user. Is that anyway that I can avoid doing that? How can I avoid creating Linux account and just using Windows account on Linux share?
Thank you.

jayakrishnan · 06-05-2002, 01:10 AM

To my knowledge thats not possible.

Noerr · 06-05-2002, 03:39 AM

not possible, but since you can make it as domain controler you can add users from windoze

ateh · 06-06-2002, 02:54 PM

In fact, it's possible. I just found a way to do it this morning after two days of struggling. I'm using samba + pam_smb + winbind. I set the permission (allow my domain user to view) on the share using samba. I use swat as well as /var/log/messages to observe the user login name. I also check passwd and group to make sure there is no matching linux user name. It works.

Noerr · 06-06-2002, 03:53 PM

great stuff, way to go
sorry to misslead you