Samba, with windows user authentication.

[hunterhunter]

Hello,
I have a Samba server that I'd like to implement windows authentication. Here's what I'd like to happen.

I'd like a user to be able to login to his/her windows machine and have the Samba share mapped automatically via a startup script. I already have the share in place, but here's my question.

How do I setup Samba so that it looks to the Windows servers to authenticate a user, instead of the users typing in a password every time they want to use the share?

If you could give me details I'd appreciate it, because I'm still a Linux novice. Also, if you could make it really easy that would be nice too!

Thanks!

 

[rzs0502]

If your Windows environment is controlled by a PDC,
Create a new machine account on the PDC for the Samba server as a Pre-Windows 2000 machine.
Stop Samba
In the smb.conf, set
security = domain
password server = *
username map = /some/path/smbusers

In smbusers:
#UNIXNAME = WINDOWSNAME
root = NTDOM\administrator

Add the Samba machine to your domain.
Samba 2.x = smbpasswd -j NTDOM
Samba 3.x = net join NTDOM



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