On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello everyone... I am a long time samba user (3 or 4 years), though I > never ventured into the alpha stages until recently (alpha 21, I'll move > to 22 in the near future once I get a better idea of what's going on). I > am very interested in Samba being part of a ADS domain, but I have been > a little frustrated due to the lack of documentation. Specifically, I've > read the HOWTO's from the University of Navarre and idealx, and I've > gotten to the stage where I have all users on my machine authenticating > through LDAP, samba is using LDAP to authenticate, etc. And I've gotten > it to act as what appears to be an NT4 PDC.
Welcome to alpha releases! We are still working on Documentation, you will find the most up to date Samba-HOWTO in PDF format in the Samba HEAD branch CVS Code tree. Periodically we update the 3.0.0 code tree from the HEAD branch. > Reading through the available documentation, the WHATSNEW.TXT, etc. I am > reading all these entries like "Active Directory support. This release > is able to join a ADS realm as a member server and authenticate users > using LDAP/kerberos." etc. but I have found very little guides on how to > implement this, or even what is meant by "member server". I am assuming > this means that the 3.0 branch cannot yet act as an AD server in a > native mode (i.e., non mixed mode) 2000 domain. Well what exactly CAN it > do? This is still being documented. Any pointers anyone discovers that may help other users should be reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (at least while I am working on documentation updates). In other words - your help is much appreciated - and Yes, even you can help. As you spot errors or incomplete information, please let me know. I will be working on updates throughout this week. > These may sound like stupid questions, but I've found very little on > exactly: > 1) what ./configure options I should be compiling samba with in > order to use as much of the active directory member features > available. It is best to use the binary packages made available by the Samba-Team on the samba FTP sites. These are usually built with maximum available functionality for your platform. > 2) whether I need to have a kerberos kdc installed on the smb > server, or anywhere on the network, or not at all. See the ADS-Howto in the samba HEAD branch docs area. > 3) I know that ADS realms utilize special SRV records in the DNS, > should I implement these, how? Ditto above. > 4) trust relationships in 2000 environment. Is it possible, what > needs to be done. This is undocumented at this time. Sorry, we will get around to it soon. > > Basically, I have a reasonable amount of free time, am very interested > in the project, have minimal coding skills but a pretty firm grasp on > the technologies, have a basement full of linux, XP, and 2000 machines > with a VPN into a "pure win2000 domain" for comparative testing, and > want to help you people test this puppy out... just need a little more > specific guidance on what it can do, and how to implement it. Hope this helps a little. - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
