Help Needed configuring Samba on Webserver
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Mon Apr 11 16:10:43 UTC 2005
Tim Holmes wrote:
>>>I really hate to be daft here, but I am still not understanding
>>>something:
>>>
>>>I want samba to accept the password that is supplied as part of the
>>>connection from windows, when it does this, it should check against
>
> my
>
>>>password server (the domain controller) instead of the smbpasswd
>
> file,
>
>>>can someone point me in the right direction. I agree with the one
>>>respondent that said that from a security standpoint it is very bad
>>>practice to have each user give me their network password to enter
>
> into
>
>>>the smbpasswd file, but I haven't been able to get samba to
>
> authenticate
>
>>>against the domain, instead of the smbpasswd, so right now that's
>
> the
>
>>>only recourse I have
>>
>>----
>>samba has a lot of documentation - well done - probably the best of
>
> all
>
>>open source projects
>>
>>http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/
>>
>>has links to both the 'How-To' and the 'by Example'
>>
>>>From what you have stated above, I am gathering that you should have
>>security = domain and winbindd set up but I didn't follow the thread
>>from the start.
>>
>>Best to work this through so you get an understanding of it.
>>
>>Craig
>>
>
> [Tim Holmes wrote]
> Craig and others:
>
> Excellent suggestion, and I am currently working this through. I am
> using the guide in the samba-HOW-TO document, in the fast start segment,
> to set up a domain member server, as this describes precisely what I am
> looking for. I have copied in the suggested smb.conf (thankfully I have
> a spare server that is serving as a testbed), modified it slightly to
> fit our domain (our domain name, proper netbios name, removing the
> shares that don't apply etc) now I am trying to get things running.
>
> I executed the net rpc join command supplying the proper credentials for
> our domain, and it successfully joined the domain
>
> I started nmbd, and smbd, but when ever I try to start windbindd, I get
> an error that the command is not found. I am guessing that it means
> that the windbind daemon is not installed, but im not sure as I may be
> missing another concept someplace else -- can someone please point me in
> the right direction.
winbindd is part of the samba-common package and is installed in
/usr/sbin. "service winbind start" should start it if you've got your
PATH set properly (i.e. using "su -" and not just "su").
Paul.
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