C Cableguy Registered Apr 24, 2002 #1 Hi! Is there a possibility that Win2k PC's use an OSX-Server as a Primary Domain Controller (without having to transfer users from the NetInfo-DB to a passwd-file or to add every user with smbpasswd)? thx for response cableguy
Hi! Is there a possibility that Win2k PC's use an OSX-Server as a Primary Domain Controller (without having to transfer users from the NetInfo-DB to a passwd-file or to add every user with smbpasswd)? thx for response cableguy
L lethe Registered Apr 24, 2002 #2 i think this is a good question. unfortunately i don t know the answer. can anyone reply? can we make an OSX computer be a windows domain authentication server? does samba have any capabilities like that?
i think this is a good question. unfortunately i don t know the answer. can anyone reply? can we make an OSX computer be a windows domain authentication server? does samba have any capabilities like that?
C Cableguy Registered Apr 24, 2002 #3 Originally posted by lethe i think this is a good question. unfortunately i don t know the answer. can anyone reply? can we make an OSX computer be a windows domain authentication server? does samba have any capabilities like that? Click to expand... samba has the capabilities, since version 2.2.1 I think. samba can also use the NetInfo-DB (through the libc). the problem is that Samba needs an entry in the file smbpasswd for every user (and we have 1000 users in the DB), or I'm wrong? Is there a possibility to skip this?
Originally posted by lethe i think this is a good question. unfortunately i don t know the answer. can anyone reply? can we make an OSX computer be a windows domain authentication server? does samba have any capabilities like that? Click to expand... samba has the capabilities, since version 2.2.1 I think. samba can also use the NetInfo-DB (through the libc). the problem is that Samba needs an entry in the file smbpasswd for every user (and we have 1000 users in the DB), or I'm wrong? Is there a possibility to skip this?
L lethe Registered Apr 24, 2002 #4 perhaps you could dump all the users from NetInfo to a passwdfile, and then run smbpasswd? nidump passwd . > tmppasswd ??
perhaps you could dump all the users from NetInfo to a passwdfile, and then run smbpasswd? nidump passwd . > tmppasswd ??
