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, -- Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123 at rogueind.com -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos