Does anyone here use a Samba4 setup for single sign-on for MS_Win workstations and CentOS-6 boxes? Does anyone here use it for imap and/or smtp authentication? We are experimenting with replacing our existing Microsoft domain controllers with Samba4 based controllers and are contemplating moving all authentication for all our systems, Microsoft and CentOS based, over to Samba when, or if, this replacement successfully completes. Does anyone have any references for using CentOS with Samba domain controllers that they can recommend? I have found some but the few I have found tend to be Samba3 specific. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3
----- Original Message ----- | Does anyone here use a Samba4 setup for single sign-on for MS_Win | workstations | and CentOS-6 boxes? Does anyone here use it for imap and/or smtp | authentication? We are experimenting with replacing our existing | Microsoft | domain controllers with Samba4 based controllers and are | contemplating moving | all authentication for all our systems, Microsoft and CentOS based, | over to | Samba when, or if, this replacement successfully completes. | | Does anyone have any references for using CentOS with Samba domain | controllers | that they can recommend? I have found some but the few I have found | tend to | be Samba3 specific. | | -- | *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** | James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca | Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca | 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 | Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 | Canada L8E 3C3 | | _______________________________________________ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS at centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos | I would have to ask why you're doing such a thing in the first place? You have a perfectly good working Active Directory setup, that people are already familiar with, I suspect with existing MS clients which integrate fully (and "properly") and you want to replace it with a Samba based setup. Unless you have a relatively simple setup, I would say don't change. However, if you are looking to move to something else, then do that. Why fix to Samba? Why not go with a full on Kerberos/LDAP environment? FWIW, we use CentOS 6 with Active Directory Authorization. Things have worked fine for us for about 1 year. It took a VERY long time to get setup and working, but it is now. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpeltier at sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices "I want to inspire people. I want someone to say "because of you I didn't give up". - Chanda Kaushik
> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of James B. Byrne > Sent: den 28 januari 2014 18:13 > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: [CentOS] Single sign-on for CentOS-6 > > Does anyone here use a Samba4 setup for single sign-on for MS_Win > workstations > and CentOS-6 boxes? Does anyone here use it for imap and/or smtp > authentication? We are experimenting with replacing our existing Microsoft > domain controllers with Samba4 based controllers and are contemplating > moving > all authentication for all our systems, Microsoft and CentOS based, over to > Samba when, or if, this replacement successfully completes. > > Does anyone have any references for using CentOS with Samba domain > controllers > that they can recommend? I have found some but the few I have found tend to > be Samba3 specific.That is so cool! Could you keep us updated on your progress on this? Thanks. FWIW, while I dabbled with Samba3 I never could get it to work properly with our AD. Turns out, the AD was set to a security model Samba3 couldn't handle. Has this been resolved with Samba4? -- //Sorin
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, James B. Byrne wrote:> Does anyone here use a Samba4 setup for single sign-on for MS_Win workstations > and CentOS-6 boxes? Does anyone here use it for imap and/or smtp > authentication?Yes to all of these, using sssd on CentOS, for about 18 months now. It works very well. We have two DC's on CentOS, no Windows DC's. No winbind. I can post the sssd.conf if anyone is interested. Steve