[Samba] Need Methods Around Anonymous LDAP Binding for User Auth

[Jeremy Allison]

On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 08:01:12PM -0700, Khanh N. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been search for almost a week, and I think I'm at a dead end without a 
> solution.
> 
> Initially, I wanted to setup a Centos Samba server for Windows users of our 
> company lab, and use our company's AD/LDAP for log-in without creating an 
> account for them.  It's all for just to simplify the user's log-in.
> 
> >From what I've found so far, is that Samba does not support anonymous binding to 
> an LDAP server.  My LDAP configuration on Centos works, as I can search and SSH 
> in using the company's AD/LDAP server.  All this is done I'm sure with anonymous 
> binding.
> 
> Is there another method to achieve what I wanted with Samba?  Is there a way or 
> tool that will copy the password from LDAP (after the user is instructed to SSH 
> in to the Samba server initially) to the system password file, and have Samba 
> synchronize with that?

Join the Samba server to the AD Domain. Use winbindd. There
are lots of HOWTO's available on this.

Jeremy.