[Samba] Samba 3 and Windows 2003 Active Directory

[Craig White]

of course one could point him out the documentation that exists to do
what he wants to do...

http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/unixclients.html#ch9-adsdc

and if he wanted to upgrade to the latest version of samba, he could
install from kde-redhat repository since Rex has the packages for
updating samba for RHEL

http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/

Craig

On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 23:53 -0500, Aaron Kincer wrote:
> If you do not absolutely have to use Red Hat, I can give you a quick and
> easy way to get where you need to be:
> 
> 0) Backup all files to a stable temporary repository or the backup media of
> your choice.
> 
> 1) Download and install Ubuntu 6.06 Server Dapper (I haven't tried 6.10 Edgy
> yet)
> 
> 2) Follow these instructions:
> 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91510
> 
> 3) Configure your shares either by hand or use SWAT
> 
> 4) Copy your files form your repository or restore them from media to the
> corresponding shares on your server.
> 
> 5) If your backup software relies on the archive bit being properly
> set/cleared, follow these instructions:
> 
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2006-September/125314.html
> 
> I might have missed something in there, but that should be enough to get you
> on the right path.
> 
> If you have to keep Red Hat, you aren't going to be happy. Their packages
> are old and in bad need of upgrading. While I was able to get an RHEL server
> using those old packages properly joined to a 2003 domain, it was not
> acceptable. I won't go into it. Just trust me on this one--if you want even
> close to the functionality you want, you have to use newer packages. If you
> do and keep Red Hat, you lose their support for those packages. Nice
> delimma, huh?
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> Aaron Kincer
> 
> On 11/12/06, Michael Casale <mcasale at knoa.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks is advance for any help you can offer -
> >
> >
> >
> > I just inherited a Samba file server in my new position, and am familiar
> > with Samba, but no genius in it. The problem is that we need to upgrade
> > our Windows 2003 domain, and our Samba server - version 3.0.10-1.4E
> > won't connect to a Windows 2003 active directory. So, we have to leave a
> > Windows 2000 DC running to authenticate to it.
> >
> >
> >
> > I don't know if this is a problem with Kerberos or Samba - but it is the
> > Kerberos that can't validate tickets to a windows 2003 Domain
> > controller, according to my logs.
> >
> >
> >
> > So, I need to upgrade either Samba, or Kerberos, to work with our
> > Windows 2003 Active Directory servers, so that we can dump our Win 2000
> > server and move the whole domain up to Win 2003 level and get on with
> > other projects outside of Samba. But, the previous admin installed Samba
> > from RPMs off Red Hat's site, and there doesn't seem to be any upgrades
> > available through them.
> >
> >
> >
> > What do you folks recommend? Should I save my config files, and
> > completely reinstall Samba, Kerberos, Openldap and all the rest from
> > source? Or should I save my configs and use other RPMs to upgrade? If
> > so, to what level? And if source, can anyone recommend an easy-to-follow
> > guide to installing and configuring Samba with Windows 2003 AD?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks a million
> >
> >
> >
> > Michael Casale
> >
> > Systems Administrator / IT Manager
> >
> > Knoa Software
> >
> > mcasale at knoa.com <mailto:mcasale at knoa.com>
> >
> > Ph.  (212) 807-9608 ext. 6000
> >
> > Fax  (212) 675-6121
> >
> >
> >
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