[TriLUG] Re: SAMBA for authentication of Linux systems

[Corey Mutter]

Samba's docs say that the current release of winbindd can't authenticate
against a Samba emulated PDC, only against an MS DC.
(I was just researching this kind of thimg myself and came across
this...)

Corey

> I'm using a SAMBA server that is configured as a Domain Controller.
> I have been able to login to the domain from
> 
>         Windows XP system, that was easy, join and go.
> 
>         Mandrake 9.0 system, I had to manually join the domain with smbpasswd,
> but it's not too bad.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>         I can't make Redhat 8.0 systems authenticate against the domain.  I
> just finished upgrading SAMBA to the latest stable release, a few
> minutes ago, no dice.
> 
>         Winbindd is running.
>         SMB.conf has
>                 security = domain
>                 passwword server = *
>         nsswitch.conf has
>                 passwd: files winbind
>                 groups: files winbind
> 
> 
> 
> 
>         Any ideas about what I'm missing?
> 
> 
> TIA,
> 
> 
>         Kevin