Topic: NT Authentication

[David O'Dwyer]

I currently manage a NT 4 Network with 90 Win98 clients and am considering deploying a e-smith gateway/server as my mailserver. The problem i have is migrating current user accounts over to e-smith.
Would it be possible for E-smith to authenticate passwords using the user account information stored on my NT server (SAM)?
As replicating usernames/passwords across 2 different servers manually isn't my idea of fun.
Would i have to configure qmail seperatly to do this?

Has anyone any experience intergrating NT 4 with Linux/E-smith ?

Many Thanks

David

[Buddy]

I personally havn't done it, but I may be able to point you in the right direction.  In the samba website(www.samba.org) it has a tutorial on how to program smb.conf to connect and authenticate with passwords and users on an NT domain.  I personally set up my E-smith server to act as an NT domain server which works quite well, the rick was that I needed to modify th 10globals file on the E-Smith server.  Do not modify the smb.conf file as it will get overwritten any time you do a change to the shares (ie add an Ibay).  Hope this helps

Buddy

[Michel Jung]

If you're planning to switch your WinNT Server off, you can use http://www.l0pht.com to do a "brute force" against your SAM database. You'll get the clear passwords to migrate your users to your e-smith server.

There are possibilities for samba to authenticate against a WinNT Domain Master. You can change that in smb.conf, but you should clearly know what you're doing there. If you have WinNT Clients and E-Smith should be your Domain Master you have to create workstation accounts for each system.

Read the Samba book from O'Reilly, there are all issues about Win95/98 and NT and Samba.

Michael Jung

[Jason]

This might not be a permanent solution but it works for me.  I setup an e-smith server in standalone mode, not using the wins server for samba and turned off the domain master on the e-smith machine.  I then created user accounts on the e-smith server that had the same user name and password as our nt accounts. connecting to drive shares on the e-smith server works great, it doesnt prompt for a password, it uses the cached nt or windows password.

[geoff]

that is exactly what he wants to avoid,

Jason wrote:
>
> This might not be a permanent solution but it works for me.
> I setup an e-smith server in standalone mode, not using the
> wins server for samba and turned off the domain master on the
> e-smith machine.  I then created user accounts on the e-smith
> server that had the same user name and password as our nt
> accounts. connecting to drive shares on the e-smith server
> works great, it doesnt prompt for a password, it uses the
> cached nt or windows password.