network problems

Sven Esbjerg esbjerg at xbsd.net
Wed Mar 17 05:02:53 PST 2004


On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 02:11:39PM -0500, FreeBSD at TinyCreatures wrote:
> 2. I recently configured a samba PDC (FreeBSD 5.2). Everything is
> working smoothly. Now i have to make another computer, that will hold
> all the files the people in the company will work with. [thank goodness
> for ACL support in UFS2 :) ]. But, even though i found lots of docs
> regarding how to setup samba as a client dominated by a Windows PDC, i
> am a bit lost about how should i setup it so that it authenticates
> against a samba PDC. Could someone point me in the right direction
> please? And i am very courios what should i be carefull of, in terms of
> load balancing and stuff, since the file-server will be accessed
> simultaneously by 50+ users and they work with really huge files. Any
> advice is welcome and appreciated.

I believe you are looking for:
   security = server
   password server = <my-server>

I have had some difficulties getting security = domain working. I now see
that the official samba-3 guide advises against using it. 
Just so you know ;)

Sven


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