[ale] SAMBA.conf

[JGlass at WesleyanCollege.edu]

You need to point your SAMBA server to the PDC for authentication using the
following settings.
[global]
        security = SERVER
        password server = <your PDC's name here>
        local master = No
        wins server = <your WINS server IP here>

You also need to have a local account on the machine that corresponds to
your NT account.  It can have a /bin/false shell, and no password, but they
have to have the same name.

HTH

Jonathan Glass
RHCE, MCP, A+, Network+, Linux+
Network Engineer & Instructional Technology Coordinator
Wesleyan College: First for Women
(478) 477-1110


-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Fox [mailto:g_j_fox at yahoo.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 10:16 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] SAMBA.conf


I am new to editing samba.conf.  From a windows box I can see the RedHat box
in net neighborhood.  I double click the icon, I get a username / password
box, but there doesn't seem to be any username that will grant me access to
the share.

I have setup a private directory as follows:
[SHARENAME]
    comment = share comment
    path = /var/www/html
    valid users    user1 user2
    public = no
    writable = yes
    printable = no

I have tried both to use root to gain access and my windows logon.  My
windows logon is specified in the valid users as shown above.  How does
Samba get the windows user info from my Windows PDC?

Thanks,
Jay


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