On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Christopher Butler wrote:

Hi all,

I have been out of the linux / unix loop for a good three years now, and a lot has changed..

I have a windows 2003 server on my home office lan as my domain controller.

I would like to know if there is a good how-to that applies to Centos5 to achieve the following:

Joining the centos machine to the AD domain (I believe I have done this already)

Sharing files from it using the AD user object credentials (don't know how to do this yet, using system-config-samba-1.2.39, it does not show the domain users yet)

Allowing login to centos using ssh or NX client (got the NX client working for root user and a local tesuser) using the <DOMAIN><windowsusername> credentials

Correct configuration of the pam related files etc so that centos automatically creates and populates a user home directory for any first time logins

I found the following article:

http://www.nixadmins.net/modules.php?page=0%2C0 http://www.nixadmins.net/modules.php?page=0%2C0&name=News&file=article&sid= 14 &name=News&file=article&sid=14

You might want to look at samba.org.

In particular http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ and http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/

They will tell you more than you ever wanted to know.

But I am a bit wary of editing files that I don't fully understand yet.

Make a copy of any files you are going to edit BEFORE you edit them. That way if you make a mistake you can revert the changes.

I installed CENTOS5 with just about every option enabled, all the services, so they should all be there already, I just need to configure them without breaking anything.

It is not really a good idea to have everything enabled. You could be creating security problems down the road if you have services enabled that you do not need.

HTH,