Samba

Jean-Eric jec at rptec.ch
Mon Oct 24 18:28:02 UTC 2005


 > Hi All,
 > Running Breezy on AMD64.
 > Anyone know how to setup Samba such that is synchronizes its password
 > list with my Ubuntu box?
 > I want to be able to change my password in Ubuntu and have the
 > password
 > updated in Samba.
 > Thanks in advance.

The idea is not to synchro samba <=> /etc/passwd (that's not possible), 
but to use Samba as the authentication for your box.
This is done hrough winbind (or PAM/nsswitch)
Have a look for winbind on Google.
-jec


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