[ILUG] The "I've given up on that" Samba Q

[Paul Jakma]

hi stephen,

i've had samba and NT doamins working fine with the samba-2.0.3 rpm from
the redhat-5.2 kernel 2.2 updates.

you need the encrypt passwords setting, you need to know the ip/netbios
name of the PDC. and you need to either create an account on the unix
machine for every domain account, or set the adduser option to a proper
script and users will be added automagically.

should work fine with the code that's in samba. you don't need the
pam_smb module.

(and make sure to set domain logon's to off and os level to something
low. or chaos will reign)

eg a snippet from smb.conf:

# Global parameters
        workgroup = MYDOMAIN
        server string = Easy Server
        security = DOMAIN
        encrypt passwords = Yes
        passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
        password server = ....
        add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -c samba_user -e 03/05/99 -f
1 -g smbusers -n %u
        os level = 16
        domain logons = no
        local master = no

this worked fine for me with NT4sp4 PDC.