it is not my expertise so i need to get some direction please so i can google better on this one.
looks like to many choices and i am sure some are time wasters.
for those of you that have done it, what is your recommendation on the absolute easiest / fastest implementation to get a centos file (space) server to auth from a windows domain controller?
do you need more info?
i know i do and have asked the windows admin if we need more than a login and password or login/domain and password etc.
thanks in advance.
- rh
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 09:07 -0800, RobertH wrote:
it is not my expertise so i need to get some direction please so i can google better on this one.
looks like to many choices and i am sure some are time wasters.
for those of you that have done it, what is your recommendation on the absolute easiest / fastest implementation to get a centos file (space) server to auth from a windows domain controller?
do you need more info?
i know i do and have asked the windows admin if we need more than a login and password or login/domain and password etc.
thanks in advance.
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part of the samba package - http://www.samba.org/samba/docs
check out the Samba 3 Howto documentation on the left side
Craig
RobertH wrote:
it is not my expertise so i need to get some direction please so i can google better on this one.
looks like to many choices and i am sure some are time wasters.
for those of you that have done it, what is your recommendation on the absolute easiest / fastest implementation to get a centos file (space) server to auth from a windows domain controller?
do you need more info?
i know i do and have asked the windows admin if we need more than a login and password or login/domain and password etc.
thanks in advance.
- rh
Configure samba to enter the domaine (with security = ADS or security = domain , depending on your windows domain) , join the domain, use winbind to resolv windows users/group, modify /etc/nsswitch.conf and start using the samba server More informations on the samba website of course
RobertH wrote:
it is not my expertise so i need to get some direction please so i can google better on this one.
looks like to many choices and i am sure some are time wasters.
for those of you that have done it, what is your recommendation on the absolute easiest / fastest implementation to get a centos file (space) server to auth from a windows domain controller?
Others have already told you what software to use and hinted at how to do it...I have a question. Are you going to have more than one centos based file servers? If you are, you may want to also use ldap as the backend rid store for winbind to keep the uid mappings consistent across all centos boxes.
Christopher Chan wrote:
RobertH wrote:
it is not my expertise so i need to get some direction please so i can google better on this one.
looks like to many choices and i am sure some are time wasters.
for those of you that have done it, what is your recommendation on the absolute easiest / fastest implementation to get a centos file (space) server to auth from a windows domain controller?
Others have already told you what software to use and hinted at how to do it...I have a question. Are you going to have more than one centos based file servers? If you are, you may want to also use ldap as the backend rid store for winbind to keep the uid mappings consistent across all centos boxes.
Just my two cents (again) : you don't need a ldap based backed to have a consistent uid mappings accross all samba servers : just use the idmap_rid function in smb.conf to be sure that uid mappings are not served on a 'first use, first served' but by using the rid part of the windows SID an all samba servers . More informations on http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/11/12/tips-and-tricks-how-can-i-configure...
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