[Samba] (no subject)

[Eric Williams]

Excerpts from james.deas's message of Wed Jan 02 19:09:01 +0000 2008:
> I am currently using the Fedora Open directory with a posix structure
> user information to authenticate several hundred Mac users.
> 
> Currently this is being done using the netatalk package for userId, UID,
> GID, password, home directory.
> 
>  
> 
> What I am looking for is a way to move from netatalk to Samba without
> losing my LDAP capabilities.
> 
>  
> 
> I have seen several post related to doing this but none that give me
> specific information on Fedora 7 and its precompiled version of Samba.
> 
>  
> 
> Can someone confirm for me that this distribution is PAM enabled and
> that ldap using posix user info is compatible?
> 
>  

the distribution is definitely pam-enabled, and samba too:

[eric at eric ~]$ ldd /usr/sbin/smbd
	...
        libldap-2.3.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libldap-2.3.so.0 (0x00002aaaab2a4000)
	...
        libpam.so.0 => /lib64/libpam.so.0 (0x00002aaaacaf3000)

This may be interesting for you:
	
	http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Howto:Samba#Samba_Setup

cya,
eric


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> JD
> 

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