[ILUG] Samba & Windows

[Hunt, Bryan]

you could add a line like this to the smb.conf file 

add user script = /usr/sbin/smb_useradd.sh %u

cut=
#!/bin/sh

# SOME GLOBAL DEFINITIONS
ADMIN="b.hunt at emuse.ie"
SUBJECT="SAMBA $HOSTNAME Strange username has been denied"

function AddTheUser {

CLEAN_NAME=`echo $1 |  sed -e "s/[^0-9a-zA-Z_-]//g" | egrep -iv "root"`
OLD_NAME=$1

if [ "$CLEAN_NAME" != "$OLD_NAME" ]
  then  echo "Bogus Name $OLD_NAME " | mail "$ADMIN" -s "$SUBJECT";
else
  test=`/usr/sbin/useradd $CLEAN_NAME -g devusers  2>&1` ||  echo "Failed
user cre
ation $test" | mail $ADMIN -s "$SUBJECT";
fi
}

AddTheUser $1
=cut

I just knocked this together when I was messing about one time. 
You could also install pam_smb which was written by Dave Arlie who is on
this
list. How that would work is that if someone wanted an account on the linux
box
and they had an account on the pdc windows nt server. All they would have to

do is connect once to the linux box through their network neighborhood, this
would 
create their account, they could then ssh or whatever into the linux box 
(depending on what login stuff you had set up to work with pam_smb). 
Hey presto you can leave it to the NT admin to do all the user creation
stuff.

--B

PS: I haven't used this on a production machine.





-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Finlay [mailto:linuxexpert at eircom.net]
Sent: 26 February 2002 20:51
To: tfmackey at iol.ie
Cc: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Samba & Windows


On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 19:25, Tom Mackey wrote:
> Hi,
> At work, a Linux machine with Samba is on a network with a few hundred 
> Windows machines. Is there any simple way of adding the existing users to
the 
> Linux box or will all of them have to be individually added first as Linux

> users and then as Samba users?  I have joined the Linux Machine to the NT 
> domain and it is visable in "Network Neighbourhood" and the few users that

> have been added to Linux and Samba can access their home directories.
> Tom Mackey
> 
You can set samba to auto sync its users with the unix users - that would
make it a bit easier.

I'm sure a bash script could take alot of the work out of it.

Mark
 



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