Samba

[Derek Broughton]

Jean-Eric wrote:

>  > 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.
> 
> The idea is not to synchro samba <=> /etc/passwd (that's not possible),

Surely it's possible.  

> but to use Samba as the authentication for your box.
> This is done through winbind (or PAM/nsswitch)
> Have a look for winbind on Google.

You're going the wrong way.  If you don't have a Windows domain, and want
your linux box to be the domain controller, it should be possible to get
the samba authentications through PAM.  
-- 
derek