[Samba] Samba 3 and Windows 2003 Active Directory

[Aaron Kincer]

One more thing Michael. I dug up some notes from when I got RHEL joined 
to the domain.

Here are some links I used:

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_85_5851.shtm

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_71_2563.shtm

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_71_5787.shtm

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_71_2343.shtm

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/ref-guide/ch-samba.html

If you are going to stick with RHEL, read these documents especially if 
you are still using the Red Hat packages. You'll want to follow their docs.

Good luck.

Aaron Kincer

Michael Casale wrote:
> Hi all,
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> Thanks is advance for any help you can offer -
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Thanks a million
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> Michael Casale
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> Systems Administrator / IT Manager
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> Knoa Software
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> mcasale at knoa.com <mailto:mcasale at knoa.com> 
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