Samba PDC with VPN access

[Jon Theil Nielsen]

2008/3/21, Sin <sinister at gmail.com>:
>
> I just happen to be looking into vpn stuff with FreeBSD,   I was looking
> at
> the man page for ppp, there is a section that states passwd(5) can be used
> instead of a secret file.  Not sure if this entirely relates to your
> setup,
> but I will be trying this out
>
> /*
> If MyAuthPasswd is a ``*'', the password is looked up in the passwd(5)
>      database.
> */
>
> > We have a Samba PDC on FreeBSD 7.0-release. The goal is to make users
> home
> > drrives accessible throuth a VPN connection from Windows clients. Until
> > now
> > I have experimented with the Poptop server without much success and now
> > have
> > a working configuration based on Mpd4. This is not ideal, since I have
> to
> > keep usernames/passwords manually updated in the mpd.secret file. And
> that
> > can not be combined with users changing their own Samba and UNIX
> passwords
> > via password sync.
> > It seems that some kind of authentication via Winbind and ntml_auth
> would
> > be
> > a way to go.
> > Maybe it can be done by installing a Radius server to communicate with
> > Mpd,
> > but that seems to be unnessesarily complicated.
> > Does anyone know the "best" solution to achieve the goal?
>

You migth be right about trying (again) with ppp. I just didn't make it work
in the first place. So I would surely like to hear if it is something you
can do. And if so, I would like to have a look at your conf files.

Best regards,
Jon