connecting linux box to windows 2000 domain

[Ken Ambrose]

Howdy!  Okay -- I'm not even sure what the MAC file is supposed to be, but
let's set that aside for the moment.  Until very recently, Samba
absolutely required local user accounts to be in synch with the NT domain.
However, now there is winbind.  "Winbind... allows Windows NT domain users
to appear and operate as UNIX users on a UNIX machine."  See
http://va.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#WINBIND for
more info.  Note that I've never set it up (I've been in an
all-Linux-server environment since it was released), so I have no
experience with it, but I'm pretty sure it's what you're looking for.

$.02,

-Ken


On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Derek Doucette wrote:

> I am having some problems connecting my linux box to a win2k domain.  After running the command smbpasswd: -j <NT_DOMAIN> -r <NT_PDC> my machine gets added to the system, and can be seen by computers on the network, however in order to authenticate, I still need to use my linux box account.
>
> In the smbusers I have added my 2000 username to my linux entry.  When I ran the command to join the domain, I was told that there would be a <domain>.<sambaname>.mac file.  I have no such file or any .mac file present.  In my smb.conf file the global section is as follows:
>
> [global]
>         ;smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
>         path = /home
>         dns proxy = no
>         encrypt passwords = yes
>         socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>         valid users = derek, mike, ddoucette
>         wide links = no
> ;       printcap name = /etc/printcap
>         max log size = 0
>         server string = Alpha_linux Samba Server
>         comment = alpha_linux home directory
>         log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
>
>         ;testing for NT Domain
>         netbios name = ALPHA_LINUX
>         workgroup = SERVERS
>         password server = *
>         security = domain
>         add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd %u -g smbusers
>         delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel %u
>         local master = no
>         os level = 33
>         wins support = no
>         wins server = *.*.*.*
>         hosts allow = 10. 127.
>
> Any ideas why I cannot authenticate with my windows user info or how to get a .mac file?  This is my first shot as samba, so it should be something easy that I overlooked.
>
> Thanks,
> Derek
>
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