Can anyone tell me if a stand-alone samba server can authenticate and get account info from an LDAP server or does this only work for domains ? Thanks in advance. Matt. -- http://www.joethrasher.com ---------------------------------------------- "Oh, they have the internet on computers now" -H.J. Simpson ----------------------------------------------
On Friday 18 February 2005 09:47, Matt Ingram wrote:> Can anyone tell me if a stand-alone samba server can authenticate and > get account info from an LDAP server or does this only work for domains ?Yes, it can. - John T.> > Thanks in advance. > > Matt. > > -- > http://www.joethrasher.com > > ---------------------------------------------- > "Oh, they have the internet on computers now" > -H.J. Simpson > ------------------------------------------------ John H Terpstra Samba-Team Member Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668 Author: The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556 Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216 Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971 Other books in production.
Gerald (Jerry) Carter
2005-Feb-19 16:19 UTC
[Samba] Stand-alone server authenticate with LDAP?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Matt Ingram wrote:> Can anyone tell me if a stand-alone samba server can authenticate and > get account info from an LDAP server or does this only work for domains > ?It can be used for a standalone but the sambaSamAccount information cannot be shared between multiple standalone Samba boxes due to storing the complete SID. cheers, jerry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iD8DBQFCFscGIR7qMdg1EfYRAh+KAJ97L8irM6Jh42JZlvj7szRxADNQxwCgrM68 VxPJYxHoVxGZdvC35Pimxr8=WH1Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----