[CentOS] Re: Definitive HowTo for CENTOS 5 Winbind - Samba - Active Directory Integration

Tom Diehl
Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:35:18 -0000

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:
>
> http://www.nixadmins.net/modules.php?page=0%2C0
>
<http://www.nixadmins.net/modules.php?page=0%2C0&name=News&file=article&sid>
14> &name=News&file=article&sid=14

You might want to look at samba.org.

In particular http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/
and http://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,

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Tom Diehl		tdiehl at rogueind.com		Spamtrap address mtd123 at rogueind.com
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