[Samba] Auth on OpenLDAP with idmap without Windows

[Jack Downes]

Filepe,
have you considered using FUSE?  with it you could use SSH to mount most
any directory on the target server, and it's fine to have multiple
connections like that.  I don't know if your performance would be good
or not...

But you could then just set up PAM to use the openldap for auth.  Just a
thought... it might be easier to google for this instead.
> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
> My environment is: many linux clients, a OpenLDAP server and some
> services authenticating against it.
> We don't use Active Directory nor we have any Windows server or client.
>
> I don't know if this is possible and i've searched a lot through samba
> documentation and on google.
> All the documentation I found shows a samba always as a ADS Domain Member, like:
> http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/idmapper.html#id2607186
>
> 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.
>
> I know is possible to auth NFS on LDAP but I don't like to use NFS,
> and I think samba is way more reliable.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Felipe Lemos
> The other line moves faster.
>