If you have Window NT clients on your system, there are a few more steps that need to be taken in order for Samba to act as their primary domain controller.
WARNING: You will need to use at least Samba 2.1 to ensure that PDC functionality for Windows NT clients is present. Prior to Samba 2.1, only limited user authentication for NT clients was present. At the time this book went to press, Samba 2.0.5 was the latest version, but Samba 2.1 was available through CVS download. Instructions on downloading alpha versions of Samba are given in Appendix D,
Downloading Samba with CVS.
As before, you need to ensure that Samba is a primary domain controller for the current workgroup and is using user-level security. However, you must also ensure that Samba is using encrypted passwords. In other words, alter the
[global] options the previous example to include the
encrypted
passwords
=
yes option, as shown here:
[global]
workgroup = SIMPLE
encrypted passwords = yes
domain logons = yes
security = user
