On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 13:57 -0400, Thom Paine wrote: > I have a server that I use as a domain controller with samba. It's > fairly simple, I don't have ldap or pam or nss. > > I need to add ldap functionality to it, and I also need to make global > address books available to the Outlook users for a new email gateway > we will be using. > > Is open ldap all I need? I've been reading samba 3 by example and am > unsure what all I need to get going. > > Anyone have some time to communicate with me off list about this? On > list is fine too, I jsut didn't want to add too much noise. ---- Yes, OpenLDAP is all you need but it's hard to learn LDAP and samba integration all in one whack. Once you understand LDAP, samba integration is simple. nss / padl / pam only comes into play if you intend to use LDAP for authentication. Craig
