[rhn-users] Accessing Samba using Windows Domain authentication

[Buchan Milne]

On Friday 26 May 2006 20:49, Michael Chien wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a Windows 2000 AD and trying to setup Samba server on RHEL AS4.
> I can have windows users access the Samba share if there is same
> username existing in the Linux user database.  Then I'll have to keep 2
> sets of user databases.
>
> How can I set it up so that when a windows user tries to access the
> Samba share, it authenticates against the AD domain user database
> instead of its own?


Join it to the domain, and use winbind for non-local user accounts.

I'm not sure how easy this is on RHEL (eg system-config-*), manual setup will 
required adding winbind to the passwd and group lines of /etc/nsswitch.conf 
configuring samba (and some kerberos) and 'net ads join'.

Regards,
Buchan

-- 
Buchan Milne
ISP Systems Specialist
B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)
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