[Samba] LDAP and samba

[John Drescher]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Carlos Santana <neubyr at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am not sure how to configure LDAP authentication with samba. I have
> a windows box, which is part of Active Directory domain and does user
> authentication against it. I would like to use same user credentials
> and map them to a appropriate network drive (linux home dirs). In
> short, Linux user's home dir should be available on Windows box also.
>
> I looked at the smb.conf man page, but I couldn't figure out how to
> configure LDAP. I have following doubts:
>

I would start at reading the following information:

http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_&_LDAP

http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/happy.html

John