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On Friday 20 May 2005 02:38 pm, Sean Cook wrote: |
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> About a month ago, some one posted a great link/howto on integrating samba |
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> with win2k. I have in advertantly lost that email and can't find it while |
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> googling... if anyone has that please send to me off line and I will crawl |
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> back into the whole from which I came. |
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> Sean |
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Hi Sean, |
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I posted this to the list a little bit ago, and in the off chance it may be |
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what you were looking for, I thought I would post it again... |
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I have actually set this up as an NT domain, as close to ADS as I could |
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possibly get. The implementation was a little tricky, but it involves |
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(heimdal)kerberos, sasl, openldap, pam, djbdns, dhcp, and samba. A web |
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document I had found helped me significantly when I approached technical |
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issues: |
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http://www.opentechnet.com/auth-howto/ |
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Along the lines of replacing ADS, I think this is as close as you may get. |
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The thing that sets Microsoft's ADS apart is that they use a form of Remote |
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Procedure Calls that implements a lot of the leg work. This makes microsoft |
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incompatible against samba. |
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In AD mode, a Microsoft computer won't authenticate against a linux host |
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(though it would as a PDC in NT mode) since it would be trying to communicate |
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in misc forms of RPC talk. On the flip side, it should be possible to |
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authenticate samba against ADS. Here is a tool that allows for flexibilty |
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with authentication under windows: |
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http://pgina.xpasystems.com/info/ |
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As far as drawbacks, that's it. I haven't seen anything wrong with doing it |
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NT style, and with all of the added bells and whistles. |
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I don't know the specifics, but the SMB-TNG is a lot more bleeding edge |
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technology when it comes to samba in an enterprise environment. It may |
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provide you with a solution closer to what you are looking for: |
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http://www.samba-tng.org |
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I had a lot of fun setting this up! ;) |
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Regards, |
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Robert |
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