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Samba authentication with AIX password authentication

  • 1.  Samba authentication with AIX password authentication

    Posted Wed August 18, 2010 02:19 PM

    Originally posted by: Annwoy


    Can someone help me to configure my samba authentication to use AIX authentication ?

    I tried the steps mentioned in http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-aix_samba/index.html


    Password encryption

    When password encryption is disabled in Samba, authentication is done by AIX. Samba authenticates only when password encryption is enabled.

    Add the following in smb.conf: global
    password encryption = no
    Create a user in AIX that does not exist in Samba. If you connect a drive in the Windows client, using this user you find that AIX authenticates the user.

    the above step doesn't work ...samba is complaining 'password encryption' is wrong syntax!!!
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