On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 04:18, Basil L. Copeland Jr. wrote: > Bob Cochran wrote: > > >Also, you must initialize the smbpasswd file with the passwords of the > >user on the Windows 98 box. That username and password must match the > >username password of the user account on the Linux box, > > Perhaps you can explain this mystery. We set up samba on psyche this > week using server=domain security. I had a user set up a linux user > account using their NT user account and password. Linux complained that > the password was too short, so they used a different password. When they > accessed their /home directory on the linux server from a windows 2000 > workstation where they were logged in with their domain user account, they > got full access to their /home directory, e.g. could write to it. I was > suprised. How could this be when the passwords are not the same? > ----------- man smb.conf SECURITY = DOMAIN .PP This mode will only work correctly if smbpasswd(8)has been used to add this machine into a Windows NT Domain. It expects the encrypted pass- words parameter to be set to true. In this mode Samba will try to vali- date the username/password by passing it to a Windows NT Primary or Backup Domain Controller, in exactly the same way that a Windows NT Server would do. password on linux when security = domain is ignored if linux is not PDC. Craig
