From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-2smp i686) Description of problem: Installer has an option for using SMB servers to authenticate users. I assume this is winbind, no winbindd is available for install, and it's not being configured. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install RedHat Beta 2.Configure to use SMB for authentication 3.Boot up 4.Try logging on with the SMB userid/password Actual Results: Can't login with SMB userid/password combination. Expected Results: Successful login with SMB userid/password combination. Additional info:
The installer calls authconfig, which is supposed to set up the SMB authentication. I don't think it uses winbind. Changing component to authconfig.
The SMB authentication option sets up pam_smb_auth to authenticate to an SMB server, typically running Samba. User information must still be obtained using one of files, NIS, hesiod, or LDAP. The current version of Samba (2.2.1a) does not include a compilable version of winbindd.
Aahhh, I understand the predicament now. The installer is a bit misleading then. I thought the SMB authentication would be capable of going against an NT domain (very desireable in our environment) as a stand alone authentication method, ala winbind. You will probably want to very clearly spell this option out in the install documentation, or remove it as a selection until something like winbind is available. This option will probably add confusion and people, like myself, opening tickets because it appears to not work. Thanks, Bill