[Samba] Auth on OpenLDAP with idmap without Windows

[TAKAHASHI Motonobu]

2011/1/18 Scald Master <scaldmaster at gmail.com>:
> Let me know if this scenario is possible:
> I want a samba server authenticating on OpenLDAP with IDMAP, without
> creating any local user on server.
(snip)
> So my question is: It's possible to auth users on a samba server
> against a OpenLDAP server without the need of a Windows environment?
> To be honest, I don't need a Samba Domain, the server will be only a
> file server.

Basically, yes.
Samba users can be stored in LDAP without Samba Domain.

Simply set "passdb backend = ldapsam" and correctly set some parameters
such as "ldap admin dn", "ldap suffix" and "ldap user dn" instead of tdbsam or
smbpasswd.

Also UNIX users can be stored in LDAP with nss_ldap.

Remember there are few documents mentioned in such environment.

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TAKAHASHI Motonobu <monyo at samba.gr.jp>