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[LUG] NIS (YP) + Samba ...

 


Bit of an oddity here... Got a small network of Linux servers, all running NIS and exporting filesystems via NFS - works well.

They now need Win clients to access it, so the obvious answer is Samba. That's fine, but authentication is the issue - what gives these days? The last time I did anything non trivial, I arranged samba to authenticate to the Linux password file (via NIS), which worked really well, and punters used the same login/password to access shares on several servers, however it required the clients to have the "enable plain-text password" registry setting which I understand is deprecated these days.

Any suggestions? It's really quite some time since I've looked at all this for anything other than a trivial installation.

The most basic solution I'm thinking of is to have one master samba password file and simply copy it to the other servers every time I add a user - crude... What's the magic runes/incantations require to have one samba server as a master and the others authenticsating off it?

Punters will be using a mix of XP, Win7 and I heard some mutterings of Vista too... A lot are using their 'home' laptop, (both in the office an remotely via VPN), so I'm not sure forcing them into the whole Win Domain thing is good either, but...

Anyway, suggestions welcome - or just knowing what the right buzzwords are to let me google more efficiently!

Cheers,

Gordon

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