I spent weeks trying to make this work with handmade Samba/Winbind and LDAP 
stuff, then eventually we just bought Centrify. If all you want is to join your 
machine to a domain and use domain credentials to login, it works perfectly. 
They offer a lot of additional features for applying group policies to your 
machines, but I can't vouch for any of that.

Centrify isn't free, but the time you'll save is probably well worth it.

David Smith



-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
On Behalf Of Peter Loron
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 6:20 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [lopsa-discuss] Opinions on integrating Linux machines with AD?

Hola. At $WORK we have an Active Directory domain that we would like to use for 
authentication and authorization for some Linux boxes (primarily CentOS 6.4). 
We don't need anything fancy as far as pushing out group policy, etc. Just 
logins and groups.

I've done a bit with using LDAP + Kerberos, but am wondering about going 
further and using winbind to actually join the machines to the domain. 
Also, there are some commercial products (some have free versions) which play 
in this space.

My experience with winbind from several years ago was that it was flaky and 
temperamental...possibly changed now?

Does anybody have experiences to share here?

Thanks!

-Pete
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