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Robert, |
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Thats the one! Thank you! |
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Sean |
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On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 15:52 -0500, Robert Larson wrote: |
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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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> > |
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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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> -- |
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> echo "Your stdio isn't very std." |
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> -- Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution |
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