Samba tutorial

[Matt Edwards]

This might help:
http://us2.samba.org/samba/devel/docs/html/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#domain-member

Matt
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darryl Hoar" <darryl at osborne-ind.com>
To: "'Ruben de Groot'" <mail25 at bzerk.org>
Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 9:07 AM
Subject: RE: Samba tutorial


> I followed your tutorial, using
> FreeBSD 5.1 the same setup as
> you describe.
>
> When I try to access the samba shares
> from an NT 4 server, it keeps prompting
> for username/password.  None of the
> Primary Domain passwords work.  If I
> access the share from a Win2000 machine
> it works beautifully.  Does this have
> something to do with password encryption?
>
> Any ideas how to get around this problem ?
>
> thanks,
> Darryl
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ruben de Groot [mailto:mail25 at bzerk.org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 12:57 AM
> > To: Darryl Hoar
> > Subject: Re: Samba tutorial
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 03:16:12PM -0600, Darryl Hoar typed:
> > > Thanks it looks informative.  Will it work with
> > > FreeBSD 4.9 (which is what I have installed) ?
> > >
> > > The password part seems like you need 5.1 to
> > > get it to look to the PDC for passwords.
> >
> > Correct. Samba does run quite well on 4.x, but you'll have to
> > create the windows domain users as (dummy) unix users, since
> > nsswitch.conf doesn't work on 4.x. This makes administering
> > such a box a little redundant (whenever you create a user in
> > the windows domain, you must also create the same user on the
> > samba box.)
> >
> > > thanks,
> > > Darryl
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Ruben de Groot [mailto:mail25 at bzerk.org]
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 2:43 PM
> > > > To: Darryl Hoar
> > > > Subject: Re: Samba tutorial
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi Darryl,
> > > >
> > > > I did this on some FBSD 5.1 systems and wrote the following howto:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.bzerk.org/documents/ntdomauth/
> > > >
> > > > Maybe it's of some help to you.
> > > >
> > > > Ruben
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 10:16:03AM -0600, Darryl Hoar typed:
> > > > > Greetings,
> > > > > I just installed Freebsd 4.9 on a machine.
> > > > > I want to setup Samba so that a NT4 server
> > > > > can copy some files to the Freebsd 4.9 machine.
> > > > >
> > > > > I am looking for fine manual to read, or turtorial
> > > > > for setting it up.  The Freebsd machine will be a
> > > > > member of an existing windows domain, but will
> > > > > not be a PDC or BDC.
> > > > >
> > > > > thanks in advance for pointers.
> > > > >
> > > > > -Darryl
> > > > >
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