[Samba] need some advice

[Greg Folkert]

On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 12:59, John H Terpstra wrote:
> On Thursday 29 July 2004 10:03, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > Please let me be the first to say sorry for no responses. I tend to help
> > those that help themselves or the one that have demonstrated at least
> > some persistence.
> ...
> > And, don't think that I haven't gone through the same here. I was really
> > frustrated with an ADS/WindowsNT/2K/2K3/Samba/Applications Server/shell
> > access/e-mail setup recently... I'd have thank nobody for replying as
> > well on 2 separate events.
> ...
[...]
> Greg makes a good point here.
> 
> Over the years many people have contributed to answering questions on this 
> list. Mostly the same questions come up repetitively. It takes a huge time 
> commitment to answer the requests that are made. Those of us who help out do 
> it for love and for a desire to help others.
[...]
> Where people demonstrate that they have done their homework, have read the 
> documentation we provide, and still have a problem I will break ice to help 
> them - particularly if in return they will provide an update to either book.
> 
> Please be mindful when asking for help that by explaining your problem on this 
> list your goal should be to help some else by way of having your problem 
> solved. This is after all a community help list.
> 
> I welcome direct, personal, email that points me to information in the above 
> books that is either missing, in error, or mis-guided. We want to improve the 
> documentation so it will help everyone. All contributions by way of patches 
> to the documentation will be given attribution in the book.
[...]

John, since I was a consultant on that Gig I (am still finishing) am
charged with Complete Documentation of what I did. This is a good thing.
I'll have to include my samba.install.journal, Each and everything I did
and referenced to make RH-ES 3.0 SP2 running 2.4.21-smp-HUGEMEMetc. to
operate in a Completely mixed
NT/2K/2K3/Linux/s390/(Win&*NIX)ApplicationServer/Solaris/kerberos5/ADS/KitchenSink environment. (Thank $DEITY it didn't include NIS/NIS+)

Now, the good thing is I'll have everything *I* did to get things to
work, including configure options, references that helped out to glue
all the pieces together, versions of software used, compiler used,
CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS, winbind setup, joining ADS, setting KRB5
proper for 6 KDCs, 2 InterTree TransSumpthing trust and 5 domain in the
tree trusts, with ACLs being used on the Linux machine (a quad 248
Opteron HP system with 10GB of Memory and 40+TB of Disk), bad thing is,
it'll have to be sanitized, and proof read before I can release it. It
basically turned out to be a "single-Sign-on" setup with ADS and
kerberos5 doing the auth work. With machine key.tabs and group mappings
from H3LL!.

But, then again, maybe my pain will finally lessen others pain.
-- 
greg, greg at gregfolkert.net

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