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kr0ne · 12-07-2007, 23:33

If you're really feeling daring you could set up samba to function as a domain controller and authenticate all of your Windows machines against it.

That way you wouldn't have to provide credentials when accessing individual shares on the NAS (as long as you have permissions to access them) as you'd already be authenticated on the domain.

You won't be able to authenticate the Macs against the domain (without some jiggery pokery) but if memory serves when you connect a network share from a Mac it lets you provide a username and password to send... think it might even have a 'remember me' tick box in there somewhere.

12-07-2007, 23:33	#8
kr0ne Inactive Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 5	Re: Samba authentication? If you're really feeling daring you could set up samba to function as a domain controller and authenticate all of your Windows machines against it. That way you wouldn't have to provide credentials when accessing individual shares on the NAS (as long as you have permissions to access them) as you'd already be authenticated on the domain. You won't be able to authenticate the Macs against the domain (without some jiggery pokery) but if memory serves when you connect a network share from a Mac it lets you provide a username and password to send... think it might even have a 'remember me' tick box in there somewhere.