CIFS SAMBA

[Luk Vandenbussche]

Who is running samba as a domain_memer server?

Can I receive a copy of the global section in
the file smb.conf.
What are the advantage, disadvantages

Greetings

[Keith Lautenschlager]

Luk,

My Samba server is configured as a member server in my NT domain. Here is a copy of the global section:

[global]
workgroup = domainname
netbios name = servername
server string = Samba %v Server on (%L)
encrypt passwords = Yes
security = domain
map to guest = Bad Password
password server = *
passwd program = /bin/passwd %u
username map = /etc/opt/samba/user.map
syslog = 0
log file = /var/opt/samba/log.%m
max log size = 1000
name resolve order = lmhosts wins host
change notify timeout = 600
deadtime = 5
wins server = xx.xx.xx.xx
guest account = smbnull
directory mask = 0777
map archive = No

One of the advantages of doing domain authentication is you don't have to add your users to the encrypted smbpasswd file. One disadvantage is some increased network activity as the Samba server must pass the users credentials to a domain controller to be authenticated, whereas in user level security it does the checking directly.

[Luk Vandenbussche]

problem solved