[wplug] nis authentication via samba

[Bill Moran]

John Harrold wrote:
> i have a linux box running nis, and samba. we have one windows machine (nt)
> and a few vmwares (98) running about. i want to validate the user name and
> passwords via samba against the nis records. is this possible?

Have you tried it yet? I've done this with FreeBSD and once nis is set up
correctly, samba just uses it with no special config necessary. I don't know
for sure, but I'd assume that Linux will operate in a similar manner.

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Bill Moran
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