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Jeremy Allison Gets A BLOG

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:17:41 -0500

Jeremy Allison, one of the lead developers of Samba, now has a BLOG of sorts. An index of articles he has written can be found here. All of these are good reading if you are a Samba administrator or interested in POSIX/Win32 issues. Many developers are either terrible writers or drearily pedantic but this certainly is not true of Mr. Allison. All the articles are clear, easy to read, and even entertaining.

Samba Hackery 2005

Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:38:18 -0400

This presentation, presented to the Kalamazoo Linux Users Group, covers a variety of Samba configuration directives and enhancements that can make your workday go more smoothly by both making your users more self reliant and your server more intelligent.

CIFs & POSIX: Bridging The Chasm

Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:31:26 -0400

This presentation, presented to the Kalamazoo Linux Users Group, covers the CIFs (Microsoft Windows) and POSIX (LINUX, UNIX, and others) name spaces and security paradigms as well as how these paradigms are brought together through the use of the Samba project's suite of servers and utilities.

Abusing Win32

Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:28:08 -0400

This presentation, presented to the Kalamazoo Linux Users Group covers a variety of tricks relating to the management of Win32 desktops (Windows 2000 & XP) via tools provided with LINUX and the Samba project.

LDAP Authentication via M$-CHAPv2 from PPPD

Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:11:26 -0400

This page covers and old hack used to authenticate users via M$-CHAPv2 from PPPD (the Point to Point tunnelling Protocol Deamon). I no longer develope or support this project, so do not e-mail concerning the fact that it does not work.

This version of pppd was meant to be used with the PoPToP PPTP VPN server. This version of pppd 2.4.1 includes the MPPE and "Strip M$ Domain" patches. Simply install and create a chap-secrets line like:

* * &uid?(morrisonvpnaccess=Y)(objectclass=posixAccount)?ou=People,o=Morrison\ Industries,c=US *