[GLLUG] LINUX SAMBA QUESTION

[Benjamin Minshall]

Ex Fed wrote:
> Does anybody out there use Samba as a PDC or Fileserver in a win 2000 
> and XP envirionment. 

Yep, and it works quite well.

> Is this easy to configure, and map drives. 

It isn't too bad, not much more complicated than a regular samba 
configuration.

> Are 
> there any security concerns, by that I mean could it be any more 
> insecure than Micro$oft?

Samba doesn't add any new ones; and, it probably protects against some 
of the problems in windows networking.

> 
> Are there any issues with authenication and keeping passwords meshed up?
> 

There certainly can be depending on the size of your network and types 
of users.  Samba does provide some facilities for syncing UNIX/NIS 
passwords when Windows domain users change their windows passwords.  You 
can use PAM with samba if you don't mind passwords trasmitted in plain 
text on your LAN.  If you'd rather use MS encrypted passwords on the 
LAN, then samba needs its own password file.

> Lee
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