Fintan Ryan wrote:
> I got the following question this morning from a friend of mine, but I'm
> .....
> machine. Now the problem is, every time we try to access the samba
> share, we get asked for a username and password. Now, I know how picky
If the user on the NT machine has a samba account on the samba server
NT usually automatically sends the user's password to the samba server.
You might want to check if there's a registry setting for that.
The easiest way of ensuring that the samba and NT accounts match is to
set samba up to use the domain controller for authentication.
> Samba is, so the NT user and the UNIX user both exist, both have the
> same username (case and everything) and both have the same password
> (case and everything). Now, if I give the username and password, the NT
> machine can see the shares. Thing is, we need to run the script
> automatically, so the NT machine needs to be able to access the share
Is this being run from a service or an application? If it's being run
from a service does the user the service is being run as have an
account
on the samba server?
> without manual intervention. We don't want to map a drive, cos really,
> UNC paths make a lot more sense. We have made the NT registry
> "EnablePlainTextPassword" change but to no avail.
This shouldn't be needed. Encrypted passwords work fine and are
enabled
by default in recent versions of samba.
Ok. I have just noticed Gary Burke gave a concise answer to this
question
earlier.
I use
security = domain
and
password server = <PDC>
on a couple of machines here and it works fine.
security = server forwards logins to the server whereas security =
domain
means samba trusts the authentication preformed by clients in the same
domain, provided the client can verify that it is a member of the domain
AFAIK.
Donnchadh
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