If you have not already, check out the Samba-3 HOWTO. It is excellent, and has come a long way since the 2.2 days.
---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | | Ryan Novosielski - Jr. UNIX Systems Admin |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent. | IST/ACS - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, K. Hawkes wrote: > Hey all, > > I hope you all had a pleasent holiday season (okay so I'm a week or so > late... I've been in hibernation <g>). > > Now, does anyone out there know where I can get documentation on running > Samba 3 as a PDC using LDAP as a backend - I know I'll get plenty of URLs, > so to narrow things down a little, I'm competant with Samba 2.2.x and have > no clue about LDAP, yet we're looking at going LDAP so we can make our PDC > (and stand-alone servers) all use the same set of passwords (as we operate a > reasonably large site with about 1600 users and 400 PC's). Currently we're > using rsync to sync password files but this isn't an ideal solution as we > need passwords that sync using a central database (so a single password > change ANYWHERE on site takes effect). > > So - anyone know of any good websites that detail that kind of setup? I have > a few already and I've configured LDAP (or so I thought) and I can't connect > to it - it keeps saying 'incorrect credentials' - despite my passwords being > set correctly. For those of you on RH9 - when you installed the OpenLDAP > kit, does it use plaintext passwords or encrypted by default? > > I guess I'm out of my depth here but I decided to give it a go anyway - any > good suggestions or places to start (assuming that I have a test system I > can install everything from total scratch on)? > > Thanking you all in advance, > > Mr. K. Hawkes > > "You look back upon choices you've made, you wonder 'what if' and wonder if > you should have done it differently... but then you'd not be you anymore, > you'd be someone else, asking the same set of questions." - Anon > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> > > iQEVAwUBPHjfdSBHjRAjzresAQHZpgf/ZKpt2Nl+8EmIJwT/rLFtx8yhFFKdqVk6 > pQGsgeOGN1ZI5kSOU6FBeWkyVS3YKLV6UHhvHVm1MQuBwPyfnjhQGj+OuI9jQPoc > qTFb0TRQivOQoOeJq1PfIFcl53RrvRUOFAl8+jdKqZo/IFARdllknkCMTZirvp5l > M+7/4a/ua2rx8d46zab1RF5YYNHRjyJRXD913FHty5VXCX31DJ55nAho30lOKOPC > TNT+zzO1UC/J+keWSjxSSV3wPeOiOgtUtI5FiuXJmv1IXzsxjogGCTd0HUJ/04mR > H623bEhl8M8yF/x6seCNKpHDkDQjoL+ddlQGVezdgbg3z7Jd7Y6VKA== > =/whC > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
