Re: NIS and Samba - can't authenticate Windows 98 clients
On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 09:44:05PM -0500, Todd Pytel wrote:
> Zeus/Phoenix
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> NIS: should have entries in nsswitch.conf to get their uid/gid info from
> Hydra
> NFS: it's so easy... too bad it's so insecure...
> Samba: should be set to "security=server" and have "password server =
> HYDRA" in smb.conf. These machines will authenticate SMB access against
> HYDRA's smbpasswd database, and assign file permissions according to
> NIS.
"security = server" is almost always the wrong thing to use. It's really
a hack that tends to cause strange problems. "security = domain" is
really pretty easy to set up and works properly.
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Michael Heironimus
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