Re: FC2 authentication with Active Directory

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

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[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] 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@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx> 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.