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Re: another samba PAM problem



the PDC is the samba server

Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University 
Jerusalem Israel



On Wed, 2 May 2001, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:

|  On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 07:59:14PM +0300, Ely Levy wrote:
|  > after looking into it I got the following with samba 2.2.0
|  > it only uses PAMS when the config of samba say to use clear text passwords
|  > to join a domain win2k uses ecrypted authentication (samba needs user
|  > root) which mean I can't make the computer join the domain
|  
|  When you're joining a domain, AFAIK, the only thing which's supposed to
|  authenticate is the Primary Domain Controller (which happens to be the
|  Win2K). So, the user logs into the PDC (a.k.a Login Into Network),
|  and then can access your Samba server with his/her permissions
|  (your Samba server doesn't get a word in the authentication).
|  
|  But that's AFAIK, so don't flame :)
|  
|  --
|  Best regards,
|  Ilya Konstantinov
|  


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