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  From: Jake Hawkes <jake@eclectic.com.au>
  To  : Alex Garner <alex@garner.cx>
  Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 16:22:49 +0930

Re: Linux Users IDs and NT

Alex Garner wrote:
> 
> At 08:36 30/06/99 +0930, mtippett@ticons.com.au wrote:
> >       Is it possible to synchronise the user names on the web server with
> >       those on the NT domain?  I have read of support for 'on the fly'
> >       addition of locked userids to allow the file system access to get
> >       a user id against it.  But it isn't clear what 'best practice' is
> >       in this respect.  Security in this environment is not paramount,
> >       so locked accounts getting created isn't too much of a problem.
> 
> Wander over to your /usr/doc/samba-xxx directory (if you rpm'ed it), or
> even better look at the docs that come with the tar ball. There are a whole
> lot of .txt docs and they all answer your questions in much detail (from
> memory). You'll have to do a lot of reading and wading, but I recommend you
> do anyway, because it gives you an insight into how powerful and cool samba
> really is.
> 
> I believe there is actually a way you can just get samba to auth from an NT
> domain controller, but don't quote me on that.

this is definetely possible. we do it, and it works well. Only thing:
put the samba box ip address in the windows lmhosts file. then it will
work. 

> 
> Cheers
> 
> Alex!
> 
> Alex Garner
> alex@garner.cx
> 
> ...I should have taken the blue pill.
> 
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