[SSSD] Another newbie request for help
Stephen Gallagher
sgallagh at redhat.com
Thu Mar 24 15:23:19 UTC 2011
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On 03/24/2011 11:21 AM, Vic Watson wrote:
>> Can you please provide more details about the use case for Samba in
>> this situation?
>
> I've got a bunch of users that sit in front of Windows desktops. They
> run applications on a Linux box.
>
> Moving data to and from the server is typically by way of dragging
> files to an explorer window - with samba being the transit that
> actually does the transfer.
>
>> It might be that for your use case you should be using windbind
>> instead of SSSD.
>
> That would be unfortunate; I've got sssd running and doing all the
> authentication properly. Logins are fine. Apache authenticates
> against it. The only service not yet coping is samba. It would be
> decidedly messy to have to get winbind running (if I can, even -
> corporate politics abound in these situations) to duplicate the
> functionality I'm getting ffrom sssd for everything else.
You should probably take this question to the samba-users mailing list.
We're not behaving any differently than nss_ldap/pam_ldap would be here.
You probably need additional configuration of Samba to map your users to
Windows identities.
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