[PLUG] Synchronizing Samba and Windows passwords

[Dan Young]

I believe you are looking for the windbind stuff in Samba that allows you
to authenicate against a Windows domain controller. Some of this might be
out of date but its a place to start:
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/winbindd.8.html
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=samba+winbind
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/csamba5.html

-Dan Young
-Parkrose School District

> I've got quite a few users running off a Linux terminal server.  They
> use Outlook Webmail to access the Exchange server.  When I setup their
> accounts on the Linux server, I told them to set their password to the
> same as they used on their previous Windows machine.  Then I disabled
> password expiration on the Windows domain controller for their account
> so the password wouldn't expire on the DC and lock them out of Webmail.
>
> I currently use Samba to allow them to access the Windows file and
> print servers, but I'd like to find a way to synchronize their Linux
> passwords with their passwords on the Windows DC.  So, if they change
> their Linux password, I'd like it to update their password on the
> Windows DC so they can login to Outlook Webmail (and access Windows
> file servers) with their new password.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> ~M
>
>
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