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To add to this a bit. Under the roadmap for samba-4 is full ad |
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replacement. So we have a lot to look forward to until M$ decides to |
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break it ;) |
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On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 10:50 -0500, Robert Larson wrote: |
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> Hello Rene, |
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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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> I had a lot of fun setting this up! ;) |
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> |
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> Regards, |
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> |
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> Robert |
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> |
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> |
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> On Monday 25 April 2005 04:25 am, Rene Zbinden wrote: |
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> > Has anyone experience using samba as PDC and BDC with OpenLDAP as backend? |
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> > Is it possible to totally go away from Windows Active Directories Servers |
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> > to the above solution? What are the Drawbacks? |
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> > -- |
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> > cheers, |
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> > rene |
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> |
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