[Samba] Need help on Samba authentication with ldap

[Rowland penny]

On 13/07/2019 12:49, Chunduru, Krishnachaithanya via samba wrote:
> Hi Team,
>
> Hope you are doing great !!
>
> We are planning to migrate our Samba shares from Aix to Linux, so that we can use ldap for authentication.
Why do you have to use ldap for authentication ?
>
> Initially we planned the add the server to AD domain for authentication, but is not possible in our case.
Why not, what was the problem ?
>
> So we are having only option to authenticate users with ldaps. We have installed openldap-clients, openldap and nss_ldap packages and are stuck from there.

Lets start with a view of your smb.conf.

Rowland