From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 2 13:22:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from saratoga.linuxpowered.net (saratoga.linuxpowered.net [63.121.110.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 515F937B41D for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 13:22:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mail@localhost) by saratoga.linuxpowered.net (8.12.1/8.12.1/Debian -2) id g32LMSSK024671 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 13:22:28 -0800 Received: from saratoga.linuxpowered.net (www-data@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saratoga.linuxpowered.net (8.12.1/8.12.1/Debian -2) with SMTP id g32LMRkP024663 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 13:22:27 -0800 Received: from gate-wa.graphon.com ([63.121.110.34]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user aphro) by webmail.linuxpowered.net with HTTP; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 13:22:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <63397.63.121.110.34.1017782547.squirrel@webmail.linuxpowered.net> Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 13:22:27 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: samba + authentication From: "nate" To: In-Reply-To: <98B01D2717B9D411B38F0008C7840931057F36F3@its-xchg2.massey.ac.nz> References: <98B01D2717B9D411B38F0008C7840931057F36F3@its-xchg2.massey.ac.nz> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.4) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I have a w2k network (test lab) and one of the machines is running > freebsd. I have installed Samba. Is there a way to synchronize the > accounts between freebsd and my w2k domain controller? > > If I have to manually re-create all accounts on freebsd it will be time > consuming . It also would cause problems if I change a password in w2k though I do not run win2000 servers(i banned them in my company), I have read that you could do this if you use samba's winbind (provided it is supported on freebsd, i think it is), and provided your win2000 server has NT compadiblity mode enabled. samba will not function in an active-directory-only enviornment last i read. another thing you could do is setup samba as a PDC and have them join the samba domain, I am working with this on samba-tng and openldap now. nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message