it is not my expertise so i need to get some direction please so i can google better on this one. looks like to many choices and i am sure some are time wasters. for those of you that have done it, what is your recommendation on the absolute easiest / fastest implementation to get a centos file (space) server to auth from a windows domain controller? do you need more info? i know i do and have asked the windows admin if we need more than a login and password or login/domain and password etc. thanks in advance. - rh
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 09:07 -0800, RobertH wrote:> it is not my expertise so i need to get some direction please so i can > google better on this one. > > looks like to many choices and i am sure some are time wasters. > > for those of you that have done it, what is your recommendation on the > absolute easiest / fastest implementation to get a centos file (space) > server to auth from a windows domain controller? > > do you need more info? > > i know i do and have asked the windows admin if we need more than a login > and password or login/domain and password etc. > > thanks in advance.---- winbindd part of the samba package - http://www.samba.org/samba/docs check out the Samba 3 Howto documentation on the left side Craig
RobertH wrote:> it is not my expertise so i need to get some direction please so i can > google better on this one. > > looks like to many choices and i am sure some are time wasters. > > for those of you that have done it, what is your recommendation on the > absolute easiest / fastest implementation to get a centos file (space) > server to auth from a windows domain controller? > > do you need more info? > > i know i do and have asked the windows admin if we need more than a login > and password or login/domain and password etc. > > thanks in advance. > > - rh >Configure samba to enter the domaine (with security = ADS or security = domain , depending on your windows domain) , join the domain, use winbind to resolv windows users/group, modify /etc/nsswitch.conf and start using the samba server More informations on the samba website of course -- - Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net> "Internet network currently down, TCP/IP packets delivered now by UPS/Fedex ..."
RobertH wrote:> it is not my expertise so i need to get some direction please so i can > google better on this one. > > looks like to many choices and i am sure some are time wasters. > > for those of you that have done it, what is your recommendation on the > absolute easiest / fastest implementation to get a centos file (space) > server to auth from a windows domain controller?Others have already told you what software to use and hinted at how to do it...I have a question. Are you going to have more than one centos based file servers? If you are, you may want to also use ldap as the backend rid store for winbind to keep the uid mappings consistent across all centos boxes.