On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, Les Mikesell wrote:
I have some services on Centos5 boxes that use smb authentication against the Windows domain as a low-maintenance way to handle most of our office users for things that don't need home directories (web/file shares, etc.). Running authconfig is all it takes to add it to PAM, then adding mod_auth_pam to apache makes it work with that and local users. This all works without any particular involvement with the Windows group or administrative access there.
Is there a better way to do this on C6 that does not involve 'joining' the windows domain?
You don't *have* to join it to the domain, you can use pam_krb5 without joining if you want. There are advantages if you do though, since a joined machine offering samba shares to windows users on a domain won't prompt for a password, as it'll use their existing kerberos ticket. Joining *is* just a case of a correct smb.conf/krb5.conf and "net ads join" with an account with sufficient privs, so isn't really much pain for servers.
And is there a way to make samba (C5 or 6) work with Windows7 other than configuring every client to to send NTLM authentication when requested?
On C5 I thought upgrading to samb3x was sufficient, and that C6 it should just work. I'm assuming that not the case?
jh