[TriLUG] Group Samba authentication

[Roy Vestal]

Chris,
 My understanding is the user authentication is checked against a domain
with "security=domain" option and the subsequent encrypted password
options.

The group permissions are checked against servers groups. This ensures
the user and group permissions are set correctly.

I have no experience with LDAP and samba so I cannot give any
suggestions or information there.

HTH

On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 20:18, Chris Bullock wrote:
> I have a quick question about authentication of samba shares.  If you can tell 
> samba to look at an NT server for user authentication why can't you tell it 
> to look at that same server for group authentication or can you?  I have an 
> NT domain that has serveral groups defined but since we have all our file 
> sharing on Samba servers the groups serve no purpose.  Everytime you create a 
> samba share, you have to create a group on the local machine and edit the 
> group file so that the appropriate people have access to the group files.  I 
> know that maybe LDAP is possibly an answer but we are not using that for 
> domain authentication, so does anyone have any suggestions?
> TIA
> --cgb