Re: FC2 authentication with Active Directory

[Elvis <elvislives gmx net>]

I have set up a samba server in our win2k3 domain with no problems, 
although it uses winbind only, not LDAP - it is fairly simple to do:
Install latest samba (3.0.7 is latest stable)
edit smb.conf:
      security = domain
      workgroup = *nameofdomain*
      realm = *fully.qualified.nameofdomain*
      password server = * (or fqdn of DC)
      idmap uid = 10000-20000
      idmap gid = 10000-20000
      winbind separator = +
      winbind use default domain = Yes

Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf:
      passwd: files winbind
      shadow: files
      group:  files winbind

Start winbind and samba.
Make sure nscd is NOT running (this will give you loads of pain if it is)
Join domain:
       net join -U Administrator (this is the old, rpc method, but it 
works fine)

This should give your domain users single sign on for files and printers 
on the linux box.

Hope that helps!      

Jim Parker wrote:

> I thought I was following all the very different procedures, but no luck
> on log in.  I could query LDAP if I supply a user name/password when
> prompted.  Also, I can authenticate with Kerberos and join a domain, but
> it doesn't retain a Kerberos ticket.
>
> The reason I'm asking about all this is so that I can use a single log
> on for all the different systems (UNIX, Solaris, Windows, and of course
> FC2 workstations) we have.
>
> Again, all the help you can provide is very much appreciated.
>
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces redhat com
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Charles Heselton
> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 10:58 AM
> To: [LINICKX]; For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: FC2 authentication with Active Directory
>
> On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:43:06 +0000, [LINICKX] <linickx gmail com> wrote:
>  
>
> > I'd like to see your howto , i've tried this a number of times (using
> > various documentation) but never succeeded :-(
> >
> > cheers.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:18:38 +0100, Klaasjan Brand
> >    
> <klaasjan gmail com> wrote:
>  
>
> > > Don't know if this helps, but I've set up windows domain
> > > authentication on a RHEL3 server by using the winbind module of
> > >      
> samba.
>  
>
> > > There's a lot of documentation about that in the samba package.
> > > Shortly, you can configure samba to join a domain and install a pam
> > > module that uses the samba-provided credentials to authenticate
> > >      
> system
>  
>
> > > users.
> > > If anyone needs a detailed description I probably should write a
> > >      
> howto ;)
>  
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> I'd love to see a "How-to" as well.  All of the documentation that
> I've read states that there are problems with Samba 3.x and Windows
> 2003  (works fine with Win2K).  The most recent article I've read was
> about v3.0, so I don't know if the Samba developers have fixed those
> outstanding issues with Win2K3 in more recent versions or not.
>
>