From: Andrew Watkins (andrew@dcs.bbk.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Nov 01 2005 - 08:18:51 EST
Hi,
We have been using Samba for ages to share UNIX filestore to Windows machines
with out any problems (domain control is a Windows 2003 box ADS). Our setup
is that users have two network drives on there PC's (Samba share and a Windows
share) and they have duplicate accounts on both Windows and Solaris.
We have this setup since samba shares do not allow users to change the security
of files (.i.e. a user may want to allow a another user / group to access there
files). Of course there is no such problem with the windows filesystem.
I have been looking at the samba pages and I am not sure if it can be done,
since it does not directly mention this. What it does mention is that I
need to setup samba with LDAP to map Solaris(NIS) UID with Windows(ADS) SID,
which looks like a major project and may mean dropping NIS!
If someone has gone through this problem please let me know of how to solve it.
The reason for this e-mail now is that our manager was about to purchase more
Windows filestore, but I suggested expanding our UNIX this problem, but that is
not going to happen if I don't solve this problem.
A "HOW TO" would be great, since it would save a lot of time
Thanks
Andrew Watkins
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