Topic: WinBind SME 5.6

[chris]

So far so good. Configured all panels and dansguardian with html front end. Need to authenicate users to W2k. at the moment configured to pam_auth and this works well but needs to auth against NT W2K domain. Any ideas ? Winbind for SME ?

[Greg Zartman]

Winbind for SME ?

Winbind maps windows NT user/group accounts to *nix, allowing one to login to a *nix machine without a *nix account.  Is this what you are trying to do?  

Be aware that SME is not rigged to function like this.  SME is configured to either function as a member of a standard windows workgroup or as the PDC for a windows domain.  Sounds to me like you are wanting SME to be a domain member of an existing Windows domain.

I wrote a howto that will solve half the problem:   Configuring SME to be a domain member:
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/gzartman/HowToGuides/SME_DomainClientHowto.htm

Setting SME to authenticate user access via winbind->pam may take a bit of work.  Maybe this will help:
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/winbind.html

Just keep in mind the SME is not like other generically configured versions of Linux.  It is highly configured for a specific purpose.  It is very easy to break things if you push SME too far outside of it's intended purpose.

Good luck.

Greg Zartman

[Greg Zartman]

Winbind for SME ?

Winbind maps windows NT user/group accounts to *nix, allowing one to login to a *nix machine without a *nix account.  Is this what you are trying to do?  

Be aware that SME is not rigged to function like this.  SME is configured to either function as a member of a standard windows workgroup or as the PDC for a windows domain.  Sounds to me like you are wanting SME to be a domain member of an existing Windows domain.

I wrote a howto that will solve half the problem:   Configuring SME to be a domain member:
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/gzartman/HowToGuides/SME_DomainClientHowto.htm

Setting SME to authenticate user access via winbind->pam may take a bit of work.  Maybe this will help:
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/winbind.html

Just keep in mind the SME is not like other generically configured versions of Linux.  It is highly configured for a specific purpose.  SME works like a swiss watch if let it do what it is designed to do.  However, it can be very easy to break things if you push SME too far outside of it's intended purpose.

Good luck.

Greg Zartman