Synchronize passwords in Samba/NT

[katdaddy]

Everytime a user logs into our network they are prompted for their UNIX password for their share connection. How can this be suppressed to where it happens without them having to enter their password all the time? We have Samba 2.2.2 on an HP-UX 10.20 box. The workstations are NT 4.0.

Thanks,
Kevin

 

[ianf]

Several different ways.

Use Samba to validate you NT workstation logon passwords. This is a low security solution.

If you have an NT4 server, aquire Microsoft Services for UNIX to enable NT4 to use a NIS server to validate your passwords. Or use the NFS client to map drives directly (bipassing Samba). It's cheap, but not well advertised.

I presume that you have the EnablePlainTextPassword hack in place ? check out

http://www.jsiinc.com

and search on EnablePlainTextPassword if it rings no bells.

Hope this helps Ian

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