[clug] ldap/active directory

[Paul Wayper]

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On 07/01/2010 06:35 PM, Malcolm Bodger wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I'm new to this list, so this is my first email.

Hi Malcolm,

Despite appearances, this is a list for the Canberra Linux Users Group.  We
help people with a whole bunch of problems, not just SaMBa, but your question
may take some time as it's not specifically SaMBa focussed.

> I've installed Samba on a Ubuntu server and I want to share a file system, but  I need users to authenticate to access the shared file system.
> My Ubuntu server is configured to accept user logins authenticating to our LDAP server, so I thought this would be easy - how wrong can one be.
> So, can anyone tell me how to get samba to authenticate users to ldap, without making changes to the ldap server?
> Or, would it be easier to user Active Directory?

I'm fairly sure SaMBa supports LDAP authentication but I've never set it up.
But I've never done it, so I can't be much more use than that :-)

Have fun,

Paul
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