hi..

i have 2 servers one of them is an LTSP server and the other one is my NFS server..

LTSP sever is using /home fron nfs server by mounting it remotely

now i want to make my nfs server as my SAMBA server...for that i want to add users on the LTSP server to samba server on the other machine..

how do i do that???

i found one solution that is using my NFS server to serve user accounts

but i dont know how to do that...plz help

You mean, something like this?

the thing is that i have two linux machines...

on one of the systems i am running samba server....
and i want the users on the other machine to be added to samba users list..

so that i can provide those users with windows access using windows server 2003 which is running on my third server..

plz tell me how do i do that??

Um... you are talking to a free software advocate... I'm afraid my reply is obligated to be: replace the Win2000 server with a gnuLinux server

Anyway, the link shows you how to run LTSP and NFS servers on the same machine - windows network access is provided much the same way as NFS access... you install the samba client.

Case study:
http://www.linux.com/articles/48520

You need to read the manuals.

m already running a ltsp server...
one of the 2 machines which i have is my LTSP server..

right now my LTSP server is my SAMBA server also but i want to separate the SAMBA server and put it onto another machine

but i want the LTSP users to get access to windows sessions simultaneously

for that i need to add LTSP users to SAMBA rite??

plz tell me how?

The same way you do for other users... uzzled:

Perhaps you need to spell out your situation...

You have two linux machines and they are able to access a network which includes a win2000 server and an unspecified number of windows machines.

An undisclosed number of these machines, and/or/including, the server itself, are sharing one or more directories via a windows network (SMB). Presumably, fat linux clients are able to access these shares, in an unspecified way, using samba.

One machine is an existing LTSP server - so you have an unspecified number of thin clients.

You would like the linux thin clients to be able to access the smb shares on the windows network?

http://www.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/WebHome
http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/Documentation

heres the deal..let me put it in very simple words..

want to add users of linux machine A to SAMBA running on linux machine B

how do i do that?

suppose machine A has user "sam"

on machine B i tried command

$ smbpasswd -a sam

but it says

failed to modify passwd for user sam

There are several ways to "do authentication." The simplest way is to have individual nothing-in-common with-any-other-machine password files, but it is quite common for both Windows and Linux machines (and therefore, Samba file-shares) to rely upon an external, centrally-managed authentication source e.g. LDAP (Active Directory), Kerberos, and RADIUS. (All different.)

Or for that matter... a Windows domain-controller.

Start by reviewing the Samba documentation on authentication methods. Also read about the PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) system in Linux. In large installations, what you are seeking to do is actually quite routine.

Also note: there is no "best way" in this arena. Linux's objective is to "blend in," to whatever authentication mechanism is the shop standard.