Re: [Samba] Authentication problem with Mysql backend

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On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 14:44 -0500, Rodrigo De la Pena wrote:
> i'm using samba-3.0.20b,=20
>=20
> "did you create the unix user-account aswell ??"
> do i have to create the accounts in the OS to use them with mysql?=20
> i create the account "rodelapena" whith its passwd and it failed by
> NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME, in theory the authentication worked, but it
> wont be necessary to create an OS account to could use it in mysql, am i
> wrong??.
>=20
> i made the changes to the smb.conf that you suggested me before the
> creation of the OS account and authentication failed again.=20

Yes, all Samba users must exist in the OS. This is why I am mystified
by the number of people who want to use MySQL to back Samba :-)

I strongly suggest following the pdb_ldap route, and use nss_ldap to
provide the users to the OS.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Samba Developer, SuSE Labs, Novell Inc. http://suse.de
Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College http://hawkerc.net

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