[Samba] Minimal AD DC server for dev/test setup

[Martin Langhoff]

Thank you Louis!

I had
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_an_Active_Directory_Domain_Controller
in my bag of tricks, now from your link I found
https://github.com/thctlo/samba4/blob/master/howtos/stretch-base-2.0-samba-minimal-ad.txt
which looks good.

Our Linux platform is CentOS at this time (but I've been a DD and long time
debianista). I'll go through both.

How do you create, query user/group records?  I'm used to ldapadd,
ldapsearch, etc.

thank you,



martin

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 10:41 AM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi Samba List,
>
> I am developing software which should interop with AD/LDAP, I am
> looking at using the Samba DC and loading it with some example user
> accounts.
>
> "Interop with AD" means use and AD backend for authentication,
> retrieval of basic user record and membership info. Simple enough/
>
> In the past, I've implemented similar functionality using OpenLDAP as
> the reference backend (ie, I wrote much of
> https://docs.moodle.org/33/en/LDAP_authentication ) .
>
> Are there any guides on how to install and configure Samba's DC
> _standalone_? Any hints or guidance for me? Does Samba's DC component
> support this mode of operation?
>
> For further info, we are developing and testing on a Linux which
> carries Samba 4.6.x. Also, I'm an old linux hand, and there's a chance
> you're using software I contributed to :-)
>
> thank you!
>
>
>
> martin
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