ldap and active directory configuration

[Malcolm Bodger]

Hi Scott,
 
Thanks for this. I've gone through the documents for configuring LDAP and it appears to want to make samba a domain controller on a new ldap database. All our users authenticate to our existing edirectory, which is updated by a feed from our payroll system. I want to authenticate our existing users to our ldap(edirectory) to access the samba share. I don't want to create an admin user for samba. The ubuntu box already authenticates users to our ldap server. Is there no easy way to do this?
 
Thanks.
Regards,
Malcolm.
 
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From: Scott Grizzard [mailto:scott at scottgrizzard.com]
Sent: Thu 01/07/2010 13:14
To: Malcolm Bodger
Cc: samba-technical at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: ldap and active directory configuration



Google "ubuntu samba domain member server".  Also, you migtht want to use OpenSuse instaed...it is a bit more intuitive for Windows power users than Ubuntu, and easier to integrate into a Windows domain.

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Scott Grizzard
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	On Jul 1, 2010 6:35 AM, "Malcolm Bodger" <M.Bodger at westminster.ac.uk> wrote:
	
	Hi,
	
	I'm new to this list, so this is my first email.
	
	I've installed Samba on a Ubuntu server and I want to share a file system, but I don't want the filesystem to be public, 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?
	
	Thanks,
	Malcolm.
	
	
	
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