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Hi all,<br>
I've been reading through Simon Bryan's posts (with a host of others from
various sources) with some interest over the past few days, trying to
find a way to get useable authentication from a RH9 box to an NT4
domain.<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>I've
battled my way through winbind and PAM troubles on and off for about a
week and now the box has stopped all forms of logon. Subsequently I've
decided to reinstall RH9 on the box (without samba) to start from scratch
on the project.<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>My biggest
trouble other than not having time to sit down un interrupted, i think,
is a lack of proper linux knowledge. I've done many installs and am
comfortable using linux however my strict expertise are in windows
environments.<br><br>
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wondering if anyone out there could help me to get all this working.
Perhaps providing information with enough detail for a wintendo user to
follow.<br><br>
Perhaps my main questions are the following..<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>1) Does
samba have to be configured with the --with-winbind-auth-challenge and/or
--with-pam ?<br><br>
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being, from a base RH9 with samba installed from the setup process I was
able to <i>wbinfo -u dom+uname%pass</i> and received <i>plaintext
authentication succeeded</i> though no other information appeared)<br>
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<x-tab> </x-tab>2) What
PAM files need to be modified in order to allow shell and X logons to the
machine?<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>3) Is
there any way to automatically map to the users network home directory
(as defined by the domain users and groups settings)?<br><br>
Everyone here thinks I'm mad in trying to do this, suggesting I avoid
winbind, however I don't want to have to populate 1300+ student user
accounts on the linux boxes every six months.<br><br>
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm more or less at my wits' end
with this.<br><br>
Cheers in advance<br>
Max Hobbs<br>
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Max Hobbs - Technical Officer<br>
School of Engineering and Industrial Design<br>
University of Western Sydney <br>
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