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beaker15
January 20th, 2008, 04:01 PM
I'm setting up a samba domain controller on Feisty serving about 10 Windows XP clients and wondering how best to go about setting up the users/groups i need. At the moment I was just going to create the users and groups in ubuntu and convert them to samba users through webmin. Is this the best way or do i need to use openLDAP? In particular I'm looking at the "passdb backend" line in smb.conf. because i'm not sure what to put in there.

K.Mandla
January 22nd, 2008, 08:17 PM
Moved to Servers and Security.

freebeer
January 23rd, 2008, 12:32 AM
I use tdbsam myself. You might want to have a look at http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/passdb.html for some background info to help you make a choice.