[Samba] Samba 3.0.14a, Windows 2k3 and ADS

[John H Terpstra]

Ross,

You may find some useful info in the book "Samba-3 by Example" that answers 
your questions. It can be downloaded from:

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-Guide.pdf


Cheers,
John T.

On Friday 13 May 2005 04:21, sysrm wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Thanks for everyones help so far with trying to get these all working.
>
> I am now at the stage where I can logon to the domain and access a samba
> share with out having to enter in a username password (i.e samba is using
> AD to authenticate)
>
> My system is setup like so:
>
> Windows 2k3 PDC (so I get group policy features, bad password attempts,
> account expiry etc)
> Samba 3.0.14a on RH es3 linux FileStore ( peoples Home drive email etc )
>
> Now I have a couple of questions...
>
> 1. I can use the net rpc add user command to add users, when I do this they
> are disabled in windows AD, and ive been unable to find any documentation
> of the -F switch (which is where I assume u can say if they are disabled,
> what their home directory is, and where to map it etc)
>
> 2. In various howto's docs etc people talk about using samba as the pdc and
> open ldap etc. Is the above system using LDAP ? i.e Windows 2k3 AD ? Or is
> what I have using kerberos?
>
> 3. assuming im not using ldap, I have a script that currently runs every 15
> mins and brings out a user,cryptpasswd list of my users and gives it out to
> various services (such as .htaccess and squid)
> Either by using ldap or another way, how is this possible to do? Since the
> users are no longer on the linux box (locally)
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Ross

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John H Terpstra
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The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556
Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216
Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971
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