[Lias] Help with Winbind!?

[Max Hobbs]

Hi all,
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.
         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.
         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.

         I was 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.

Perhaps my main questions are the following..
         1) Does samba have to be configured with the 
--with-winbind-auth-challenge and/or --with-pam ?

         (reason being, from a base RH9 with samba installed from the setup 
process I was able to wbinfo -u dom+uname%pass and received plaintext 
authentication succeeded though no other information appeared)

         2) What PAM files need to be modified in order to allow shell and 
X logons to the machine?
         3) Is there any way to automatically map to the users network home 
directory (as defined by the domain users and groups settings)?

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.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm more or less at my wits' end 
with this.

Cheers in advance
Max Hobbs


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Max Hobbs - Technical Officer
School of Engineering and Industrial Design
University of Western Sydney
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