[Wolves] Samba Authentication against SBS 2000

Old Dan dan at dannyboy.dnsalias.org
Wed Oct 20 13:26:58 BST 2004


Chris Ball wrote:

> okay, this might seem like a silly question, but i've moved the 
> datafiles for our accounts stuff onto a small linux server, and i was 
> wondering if i could set up samba, so it would use the AD server for 
> authentication?
>
> this is possible with Small Business Server 2000? 

Yeah - look into winbindd which allows samba to authenticate against AD 
servers (and hence SBS).

HTH
-- 
Dan



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