[CentOS] HELP SAMBA + LDAP

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Thu Jun 11 18:27:06 UTC 2009


On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Fabian Arrotin wrote:

>> Please does some one have any "documentation", "tutorial", "how to" 
>> about setting up a PDC basing on Samba with a LDAP (OpenLDAP) 
>> backend ?
>
> the smb.conf file from samba on CentOS 5 is well documented .. and 
> also the samba.org website
>
> Basically you need to setup your ldap correctly, import the samba 
> schema, initialize the domain (you can use smbldap-tools for that, 
> very easy), configure samba to use the ldap backend and 'voilà' ..

I'll second the smbldap-tools suggestion. Docs are online:

   http://www.iallanis.info/smbldap-tools/docs/smbldap-tools/

You can get smbldap-tools and the dozen or so non-standard perl-*.rpm 
dependencies from rpmforge.

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