samba: users from other domain want to use share

[Donald Kok]

Hi,
In samba some users from other domain want to use a share.

The share is completely open (browseable and public.)
security is set to server. So in my own domain nobody has to give a password.
I want to give all users outside my domain access to this share. Without giving each user explicit right.

Anybody?

[Mike Hassell]

Donald,

I'm not 100% sure on this one, but I think if you make your default domain trust this other domain where these new users exist, they should have access to this share. I say this because if the trust exists between the two and you have assigned the group EVERYONE read/write access then these should propagate and the trusted domain accounts should be able to access them without being prompted for a username and password.

This would solve your problem, without altering your samba configuration in any way as it would be one simple change on the PDC of your default domain.

To be sure, please read the following:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q103/3/90.asp

I'm a little rusty with NT as I haven't worked with it in awhile, but if memory serves me right that should solve your problem. Hope that helps.

-Mike

[Donald Kok]

Thanks for th reply. However I do not admin the domain, I just admin some unix machines. I was looking for a samba solutions like:

- putting 2 domains in smb.conf,
- running 2 samba's ( or a cif and a samba)
at the same time,
- NFS the share to a different unix box,
run samba on the second box with the
other domain.

At the moment I expect only the last solution to work.