[Samba] Step by Step guide: Samba + Ldap backend

Alex Crow acrow at integrafin.co.uk
Mon May 14 18:10:31 GMT 2007


Aaron,

The best has to be to follow the "Samba 3 by Example" guide on the
samba.org website. You can also get a dead-tree version, I think it's
now on the second edition.

The section dealing with starting with an LDAP backend is, I believe,
entitled "Making Happy Users".

Cheers

Alex

On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 12:48 -0500, Aaron Souza wrote:
> All,
> 
> I've looked around and cannot find an easy way to set up samba with an ldap
> server. I have a working ldap server (email and other systems use it) and
> I'd love to use that as our authentication backend to samba, so users just
> have one name/password combination.
> 
> Can anyone link me to a good samba + ldap howto?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> ~ Aaron



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