On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 17:43, Marcus Blomenkamp wrote: > Hi all, > > to raise the bug vs success ratio i'd like to express my gratitude to all > samba members and those who, though not in-core developers, generously > supported noobs like me on this mail list. > > I've set up an environment two months ago and it has run without glitches or > tweaks since then. Now as misusing my family as beta testers has worked out > so nicely i will deploy an identical setup in the institute i'm working for. > > Samba and OpenLDAP in pair function as single-sign-on provider. All > information (passwords, users, mappings etc) is stored in ldap under strict > permission policies - all within ldap except the password to access ldap. :) > Authentication is handled centrally through samba. Clients are debian woody > and windows xp machines joined into the domain. The network is heterogenous > itself with some machines sitting on wireless lan. Roaming profiles perform > great with only one warning being spit out on the winxp machines: 'cannot > find active directory controller' or similar ;)
That's an interesting one - I've not seen that. Any ideas what triggers it? > Unix clients currently suck their uid/gid information directly from ldap as > i'm still relying upon NFS for home directory access. I've setup auto-mount > smb/cifs home dirs through pam_mount too, however smbfs/cifs seem far from > usable in respect of unix specialties such as absolute symbolic links. Has > anythind happened in this direction recently? This would definitively be the > dot on the i. Personally, I don't think this is the right way to do it - NFS is a much better match for unix semantics. Now, the trouble is securing NFS - but I think that NFSv4, SFS (www.fs.net) and the like are a better match for this problem space. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net
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