[Samba] Best Practices for rookie

[Dimitri Yioulos]

On Wednesday June 15 2005 5:36 pm, Fortin, Kelly wrote:
> I am interested in setting up Samba file services for our location and I am
> looking to find a "Best Practices" approach and configuration for use with
> an Active Directory controller.  I have had some luck in setup Samba with
> local accounts, but Linux will be used increasingly in the months to come
> and I would like to build a file server that will validate file system
> access against AD domain groups.
>
> I am familiar with Samba, but not so familiar with Kerberos and winbind.  I
> have read through some Samba documentation and found some valuable
> information, but I feel like I am missing a few pieces to my puzzle.  What
> is the process for setting up this service?  Are there some sample configs
> out there?
>
> Thanks
> Kelly

Of course, there's Samba-By-Example 
(http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/), which is excellent (many 
thanks to John T. & Co.).  I've also had success with this:

http://www.wlug.org.nz/ActiveDirectorySamba

Regards,

Dimitri