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Hi Gordon, My home network is a mixture of Win (ME & XP) and Ubuntu machines, in more or less harmony. If you wish to inspect, come over. Ray. >----Original Message---- >From: gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx >Date: 23/09/2011 15:45 >To: "Devon/Cornwall GNU LUG"<list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subj: [LUG] NIS (YP) + Samba ... > > >Bit of an oddity here... Got a small network of Linux servers, all running >NIS and exporting filesystems via NFS - works well. > >They now need Win clients to access it, so the obvious answer is Samba. >That's fine, but authentication is the issue - what gives these days? The >last time I did anything non trivial, I arranged samba to authenticate to >the Linux password file (via NIS), which worked really well, and punters >used the same login/password to access shares on several servers, however >it required the clients to have the "enable plain-text password" registry >setting which I understand is deprecated these days. > >Any suggestions? It's really quite some time since I've looked at all >this for anything other than a trivial installation. > >The most basic solution I'm thinking of is to have one master samba >password file and simply copy it to the other servers every time I add a >user - crude... What's the magic runes/incantations require to have one >samba server as a master and the others authenticsating off it? > >Punters will be using a mix of XP, Win7 and I heard some mutterings of >Vista too... A lot are using their 'home' laptop, (both in the office an >remotely via VPN), so I'm not sure forcing them into the whole Win Domain >thing is good either, but... > >Anyway, suggestions welcome - or just knowing what the right buzzwords are >to let me google more efficiently! > >Cheers, > >Gordon > >-- >The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG >http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list>FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq