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Re: Samba and M$ 98



On Sat, 30 May 1998, Ira Abramov wrote:

> > Why? Though, if you really need it, you can enable (at compile time)
> > support for
> > synchronous updates of /etc/passwd.
> 
> I'll read deeper into it. truth is I actually need the passwords as served
> from NIS. fact is that without that registry "patch" it just won't login,
> and that was the solution givven on Samba's homesite.

i'd have to second that. the registry editing seemed to be a simple
solution to this problem (thought i still have a different problem having
to do with win95's inability to login to a network server as a user other
then that which logged into that win95 box - anyone knows of a
solution/workaround for this?).

as long as one uses samba in a restricted environment, i wouldn't try a
solution that keeps several password files and has to sync them.

by the way - we installed samba both on linux and on solaris, both getting
their passwords files via NIS, and samba recognizes all the NIS users and
their passwords (now, i think i chose some option for that when i compiled
samba, but i don't remember, it was rather long ago).

on the other hand - our network is rather small, so i never had to
consider the problem of supporting many users.

guy