[Samba] Samba - Joining AD and OU issues

[Thomas M. Skeren III]

Wayne Rasmussen wrote:

>Windows 2000 Server named adtest.com as PDC.
>Solaris 9 server with SAMBA 3.0.7.
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>I am trying to get a handle on the OU issue I am having. Suppose the PDC
>adtest.com has 100 OU such as
>a1, a2, a3, ..., a98, a99, a100.
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>On the Solaris Server I am doing:
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>kinit Administrator at adtest.com
>type in Administrator password
>nmbd; smbd; winbindd -B
>net ads join
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>When I do wbinfo -g or getent passwd I see all the accounts in all the OU.
>Suppose I only want one or two OUs?  Imagine that I want a7 only, do I have
>to create a special account within OU a7 (such as a7adadmin) and use kinit
>a7adadmin? If so, then what do I need to have specifically two OUs, a7 and
>a12?
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>The second question I have is that kinit always prompts for a password is
>there a better way to do this?
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Well, once you kinit, you have a ticket.  kinit again asks the ADS to 
reissue a ticket.  Do a klist to see if ticket is active.

>Thank you,
>Wayne
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