Samba user authentication

Collins Richey crichey
Mon Jul 2 17:46:12 PDT 2007


On 7/2/07, David Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/2/07, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:

> > It isn't Samba that has problems here, but Windows.  While there
> > were ways to use pure Samba/Unix authentication that worked
> > reasonably well with earlier versions of Windows which requires
> > some registry hacks, the use has been deprecated for years.
> >
>
> And what did you expect?  It's windoze lusers that use samba!
>

Yep, and most companies are like mine - they enforce the Window
luserdom by requiring all to use Outlook and extensions that are Luser
only. We could implement something like Evolution for our Engineering
(Linux) users, but no the company insists on a Windows only PGP and
vaulting product.

Sigh,


-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.



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