Christopher Butler
2008-Jan-21 21:42 UTC
[CentOS] Definitive HowTo for CENTOS 5 Winbind - Samba - Active Directory Integration
Hi all, I have been out of the linux / unix loop for a good three years now, and a lot has changed.. I have a windows 2003 server on my home office lan as my domain controller. I would like to know if there is a good how-to that applies to Centos5 to achieve the following: Joining the centos machine to the AD domain (I believe I have done this already) Sharing files from it using the AD user object credentials (don't know how to do this yet, using system-config-samba-1.2.39, it does not show the domain users yet) Allowing login to centos using ssh or NX client (got the NX client working for root user and a local tesuser) using the <DOMAIN>\<windowsusername> credentials Correct configuration of the pam related files etc so that centos automatically creates and populates a user home directory for any first time logins I found the following article: nixadmins.net/modules.php?page=0,0 <nixadmins.net/modules.php?page=0,0&name=News&file=article&sid14> &name=News&file=article&sid=14 But I am a bit wary of editing files that I don't fully understand yet. I installed CENTOS5 with just about every option enabled, all the services, so they should all be there already, I just need to configure them without breaking anything. Christopher J Butler CJB Technology Consulting cbutler at optonline.net (631)731-1757 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080121/eed4e183/attachment-0002.html>
Tom Diehl
2008-Jan-22 02:35 UTC
[CentOS] Re: Definitive HowTo for CENTOS 5 Winbind - Samba - Active Directory Integration
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Christopher Butler wrote:> Hi all, > > > > I have been out of the linux / unix loop for a good three years now, and a > lot has changed.. > > > > I have a windows 2003 server on my home office lan as my domain controller. > > > > I would like to know if there is a good how-to that applies to Centos5 to > achieve the following: > > > > Joining the centos machine to the AD domain (I believe I have done this > already) > > > > Sharing files from it using the AD user object credentials (don't know how > to do this yet, using system-config-samba-1.2.39, it does not show the > domain users yet) > > > > Allowing login to centos using ssh or NX client (got the NX client working > for root user and a local tesuser) using the <DOMAIN>\<windowsusername> > credentials > > > > Correct configuration of the pam related files etc so that centos > automatically creates and populates a user home directory for any first time > logins > > > > I found the following article: > > nixadmins.net/modules.php?page=0,0 > <nixadmins.net/modules.php?page=0,0&name=News&file=article&sid> 14> &name=News&file=article&sid=14You might want to look at samba.org. In particular us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection and us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide They will tell you more than you ever wanted to know.> But I am a bit wary of editing files that I don't fully understand yet.Make a copy of any files you are going to edit BEFORE you edit them. That way if you make a mistake you can revert the changes.> I installed CENTOS5 with just about every option enabled, all the services, > so they should all be there already, I just need to configure them without > breaking anything.It is not really a good idea to have everything enabled. You could be creating security problems down the road if you have services enabled that you do not need. HTH, -- Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123 at rogueind.com -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos