[plug] Samba query

[Andrew Howell]

On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 01:39:41PM +0800, Oliver White wrote:
> Hi folks.
> 
> A friend of mine had a query about samba, which I said I'd ask for him.
> 
> <IRC>
>     <|kimba|> basically .. need to know how it intergrates between NT
> and Unix .. and if it provides the security model between the too .. or
> if the security still falls back to the unix ?
> </IRC>
> 
> I hope this makes sense, I know bugger all about samba, so I don't know
> if the question is meaningful or not.

It depends on how you configure samba. With encrypted passwords on it
authenticates against either a smbpasswd file, or you can get it to auth
against a NT domain controller.

You still need a unix account though, but you can configure samba to
automatically create one when someone with a NT account tries to connect
to a share on the samba box.

File security works on unix permissions but you can also do security on
a share basis via samba's config.

For more info read the docs on samba's web site. Or there are a number of
good samba books.

Or ask another question :)

Andrew

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