Alan.M.Wright wrote: > Ian Collins wrote: >> Ian Collins wrote: >>> Afshin Salek wrote: >>> >>>> Currently, Solaris CIFS server does not support LDAP authentication. >>>> >>> OK, so we're stuck with Samba. > > Only if you require authentication via LDAP.
We do, all of our service and authentication infrastructure is Solaris based. > The Solaris CIFS service > authenticates AD domain users using the NETLOGON service. > >> To follow up, how do people replace stand alone samba servers when AD >> isn't used for authentication? > > The Solaris CIFS service provides both domain member server and > standalone operation. Documentation is here: > I'll have to retry domain membership. I was unable to join the server to the domain, possibly because we don't have any DNS service records for the domain. I believe the windows machines still use WINS. >> We have an old style PDC (Samba on Linux). > > The CIFS service should work with Samba 3.x, and later, domain > controllers. Samba 2.x PDC should also be okay but it had a quirky > NETR retry requirement and I don't think we have included it in > regression testing for a long time. OK, thanks for the feedback. -- Ian. _______________________________________________ cifs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/cifs-discuss
