[K12OSN] open samba share

[Huck]

http://www.faqs.org/docs/samba/ch04.html

it's online for free :) 2nd edition anyway...happy reading!

--Huck

Doug Simpson wrote:
> I will try to go this route. . .Don't have O'Reilly's book, but do have 
> another samba manual from someone else. . .Somewhere around here. . .
> 
> May visit samba.org, too. . .
> 
> Thanks for all your help guys!
> 
> I'll leave you alone with it now. . .
> 
> Doug Simpson
> Technology Specialist
> DeQueen Public Schools
> DeQueen, AR 71832
> simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
> Tux for President!
> 
> On Thu, 4 May 2006, Huck wrote:
> 
>> a quote from Ch. 4 of the 'Using Samba' book from O'Reilly.
>>
>> add user script:
>>
>> There are two ways in which add user script can be used. When the Samba 
>> server is set up as a PDC, it can be assigned to a command that will run 
>> on the Samba server to add a Win NT/2k/XP computer acct to Samba's 
>> passwd db. When the user on the Win System changes the computer's 
>> settings to join a domain, he is asked for the username and password of 
>> a user who has admin rights on the domain controller.  Samba auths this 
>> user and then runs the 'add user script' with root perms.
>>
>> When Samba is configured as a domain member server, the 'add user 
>> script' can be assigned to a command to add a user to the system. This 
>> allows Win clients to add users that can access shares on the Samba 
>> system without requiring an admin to create the account manually on the 
>> Samba host.
>>
>> delete user script:
>>
>> There are times when users are automatically delted from the domain, and 
>> the 'delte user script' can be assigned to a command that removes a user 
>> from the Samba host as a Win server would do.  However, you might not 
>> want this to happen because the Unix user might need the acct for 
>> reasons other than use with Samba, so be careful.
>>
>>
>> Not sure how helpful that is... but that's what the book says ;)
>>
>> --Huck
>> caveat...I use the first method of the 'add user script' to add machines 
>> to the domain...but the users already exist in my scenario they aren't 
>> dynamically created and deleted.
>>
>> Doug Simpson wrote:
>>> So if I put adduser in there on the share using root preexec then it will 
>>> create the unix account and that will allow samba to connect and use a 
>>> share created by the user withh adduser?
>>>
>>> Don't you have to run smbpasswd -a <username> also?
>>>
>>> I will try it with just adduser first and see what happens. . .
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Doug Simpson
>>> Technology Specialist
>>> DeQueen Public Schools
>>> DeQueen, AR 71832
>>> simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
>>> Tux for President!
>>>
>>> On Thu, 4 May 2006, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 11:00, Doug Simpson wrote:
>>>>> I am wanting a dumb share available without having to have usernames and 
>>>>> passwords entered on the linux server, but still have the smb set up with 
>>>>> security = server. . 
>>>>>
>>>>> Not possible is it?
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess I will just have to add the users on the linux server. . . RATS!
>>>> I think if you use winbindd authentication on the linux side
>>>> the users would be there automatically.  Otherwise all you
>>>> need is the 'adduser' step.  You don't have to assign passwords
>>>> on the Linux side.
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>>  Les Mikesell
>>>>   les at futuresource.com
>>>>
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