On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 20:49, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
Where can I find any HOWTOS/documents on this? I spent an hour googling but found nothing promising so far.
It all very much depends on what you want to do with it. Samba 3.0 is
an NT4 level domain controller, as far as windows clients see it, but is
fully backed by whatever directory server you attach it to.
OK, so at the bottom I describe more or less what I want.
So, if you just want to move to a directory based system, with the benefits of directory management, then the standard Samba 3.0 will do what you want.
If you would like to add kerberos, then it is possible with snapshots of
I don't think kerberos is needed in my case.
The other area of ongoing work is in Samba4, were we have demonstrated
an 'Active Directory' join of WinXP SP2 to Samba4. This is an ongoing
area of research, but also an area that is moving surprisingly fast. More assistance (programming wise) is always appreciated :-)
This is what I actually want from this AD replacement:
- it has to store users, groups and passwords - it has to store "computer accounts" - it has to store "policies" - for users, computers
So by example:
Clients are purely Windows machines. Now with Active Directory the below can be achieved:
1) PC1 (client) is booted.
2) it connects to the server, reads its "computer account" and "policy":
- what settings should it have, what programs installed - and if a program is missing, it should be automatically installed/deinstalled (according to the policy)
3) login box appears - user logs in
- he/she is authenticated against the server, and his/her settings are applied
Well, I'm certain that I can store passwords, users, groups, either with Samba or Samba + OpenLDAP, but what I'm afraid of, is how can I set different "policies" for users and computers with Samba/OpenLDAP.
Any help if it's possible is appreciated.
Tomek
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