[PLUG] Synchronizing Samba and Windows passwords

Kelly Guimont verso at mac.com
Tue May 28 15:49:55 UTC 2002


Matt,

If you find out that they can rename files remotely via samba, let me know
how you did it, would you? I still have no resolution to my problem with
letting windows rename files via samba, and I'm not making any progress.

-Kelly

In a perfect world, Yoko woulda jumped in front of John.


On 5/27/02 10:23 PM, "D. Cooper Stevenson" <cooper at linux-enterprise.net>
wrote:

> On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 23:28, Dan Young wrote:
>> 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 out of date but its a place to start: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
>> 
> 
> Absolutely. This is the route I would take. The latest Samba daemon is
> capable of authenticating against your primary domain server and
> creating translated Linux users "on the fly" based on the PDC's
> authentication response.
> 
> This avoids your having to constantly update user accounts, passwords,
> e.t.c.--Samba and the PDC do that work for you.
> 
> 
> -Cooper
> 
>> 
>>> 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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