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  From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  To  : Timothy Aslat <tim@spyderweb.com.au>
        Linuxsa Mailing List <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:05:22 +1000

Re: Samba question

At 01:50 PM 11/28/00 +1030, Timothy Aslat wrote:
>I know this isn't strictly linux but I was hoping someone may be able to shed
>some light on this subject.
>
>I need to be able to retrieve account information from an NT domain
controller
>on a Linux box.  
>
>Is there some way I can, given a correct username, retrieve group and real-
>name
>information from the NT server?   Something like the information finger 
>returns
>would be about right.

Hmmm, rpcclient does some of that. I think it might be in Samba 2.2.0Alpha1

>regards
>
>Tim
>
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Regards
-------
Richard Sharpe, sharpe@ns.aus.com
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author, Special Edition, Using Samba


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