Hi all,
I've dug through the lists and google, but haven't found very
much info on using Citrix with a samba PDC. The small number of
messages and information I've found, lead me to believe it will
work. Does anyone have any first hand knowledge they'd be
willing to share? I'm currently involved in rolling out Citrix
for proprietary windows apps for remote offices. We've always
used samba internally, though I'm still authenticating to a real
old NT domain. The Citrix rollout includes needing more windows
CAL's, so rather then A/D, I really want to use a SAMBA PDC if
possible.
thanks,
Mark
I'm using Windows 2000 Terminal Servers here, which is the base for Citrix
installations. In addition, I've previously ran Winframe 1.7 and Metaframe
on NT4.0; all of which have worked fine with SAMBA.
I did have a problem 6-7 years ago with Winframe where I had to disable some
NT specific support to get locking to work with SAMBA, however this was pre
SAMBA 2.x, so you'll not see that problem.
I'm currently running some 170 users spread over 3 thin Windows 2000
Terminal Servers connecting to a single SuSE 9.2 Professional box running
SAMBA 3.0.11 and winbindd to our NT 4.0 PDC / BDC combination without
problems on the file sharing side.
I have massive problems with printer sharing, and have moved this onto a
second box so that I can more easily bounce samba / winbindd. Problems seem
to revolve around winbindd authentication, and to be honest I'm probably
going to move print serving back onto a Windows box for now, as it's got to
the point where users are screaming at my staff.
SAMBA PDC may also solve my winbindd problems (as may AD), and in fact we're
being pushed into AD by other developments.
Cheers
Gordon
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Nehemiah [mailto:mnehemiah@urschel.com]
Sent: 14 March 2005 13:19
To: samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] Citrix, Samba PDC experiences.
Hi all,
I've dug through the lists and google, but haven't found very
much info on using Citrix with a samba PDC. The small number of
messages and information I've found, lead me to believe it will
work. Does anyone have any first hand knowledge they'd be
willing to share? I'm currently involved in rolling out Citrix
for proprietary windows apps for remote offices. We've always
used samba internally, though I'm still authenticating to a real
old NT domain. The Citrix rollout includes needing more windows
CAL's, so rather then A/D, I really want to use a SAMBA PDC if
possible.
thanks,
Mark
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Hi thanks for the quick reply. I really just needed the fact that it
works, and people are using it ok, before I go through the openLDAP,
pdc setup. I've looked over the samba docs, and the docs at
http://www.unav.es/cti/ldap-smb-howto.html and they seem pretty good.
I have not set up openLDAP before, except for email addresses. Any
advice, or howto information would be appreciated. Is there any
other sources of info that you would refer to besides SAMBA docs, and
the link above for openLDAP, SAMBA pdc information?
Thanks,
Mark.
On Mon, March 14, 2005 8:38 am, Prakash Velayutham said:> Mark Nehemiah wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>> I've dug through the lists and google, but haven't
found very
>>much info on using Citrix with a samba PDC. The small number of
>>messages and information I've found, lead me to believe it will
>>work. Does anyone have any first hand knowledge they'd be
>>willing to share? I'm currently involved in rolling out Citrix
>>for proprietary windows apps for remote offices. We've always
>>used samba internally, though I'm still authenticating to a real
>>old NT domain. The Citrix rollout includes needing more windows
>>CAL's, so rather then A/D, I really want to use a SAMBA PDC if
>>possible.
>>
>>thanks,
>> Mark
>>
> Hi,
> I have a Samba-3 PDC which supports >10 Windows PCs and 2 Citrix
> servers. The PCs and Citrix servers authenticate against a central LDAP
> directory through the samba server. Citrix servers are a part of a
> different NT domain (which my Samba PDC has trust relationship with).
> But as far as I can say, this setup is working fine for me. If you have
> any specifics, please ask.
>
> Thanks,
> Prakash
>
On Mar 14, 2005, at 2:47 PM, Mark Nehemiah wrote:> sorry about the top post.? what exactly does that mean. I thought I > cc'd a copy of my reply to you to the list. Should I not have done > that? > or what did I do? > thanks, > that aside, > oops I forgot about idealx, silly me. Yes, I have seen > thier docs. I probably will be trying to absorb info from > those 3 sets of docs. Any early ideas on what you had to > change verses the docs at idealx? > > thanks again, > Mark. > > On Mon, March 14, 2005 12:14 pm, Prakash Velayutham said: >> Mark Nehemiah wrote: >> >>> Hi thanks for the quick reply. I really just needed the fact >>> that >>> it >>> works, and people are using it ok, before I go through the openLDAP, >>> pdc setup. I've looked over the samba docs, and the docs at >>> http://www.unav.es/cti/ldap-smb-howto.html and they seem pretty good. >>> I have not set up openLDAP before, except for email addresses. Any >>> advice, or howto information would be appreciated. Is there any >>> other sources of info that you would refer to besides SAMBA docs, and >>> the link above for openLDAP, SAMBA pdc information? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Mark. >>> >>> >>> On Mon, March 14, 2005 8:38 am, Prakash Velayutham said: >>> >>> >>>> Mark Nehemiah wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> I've dug through the lists and google, but haven't found >>>>> very >>>>> much info on using Citrix with a samba PDC. The small number of >>>>> messages and information I've found, lead me to believe it will >>>>> work. Does anyone have any first hand knowledge they'd be >>>>> willing to share? I'm currently involved in rolling out Citrix >>>>> for proprietary windows apps for remote offices. We've always >>>>> used samba internally, though I'm still authenticating to a real >>>>> old NT domain. The Citrix rollout includes needing more windows >>>>> CAL's, so rather then A/D, I really want to use a SAMBA PDC if >>>>> possible. >>>>> >>>>> thanks, >>>>> Mark >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> I have a Samba-3 PDC which supports >10 Windows PCs and 2 Citrix >>>> servers. The PCs and Citrix servers authenticate against a central >>>> LDAP >>>> directory through the samba server. Citrix servers are a part of a >>>> different NT domain (which my Samba PDC has trust relationship >>>> with). >>>> But as far as I can say, this setup is working fine for me. If you >>>> have >>>> any specifics, please ask. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Prakash >>>> >> Please try not to top post. >> That aside, did you take a look at idealx documents? I used most of >> them >> directly, but there are somethings in that document you will need to >> change as it does not work. >> >> PrakashHi Mark, Sorry for the delayed response. If you noticed, (almost) everyone in the list tries to reply at the end of previous reply. If you reply at the beginning that is top posting. Bottom posting is easier as I read through the previous transactions from top to bottom and continue to reply the last mail. Anyway, if you are trying Samba 3, you must have already noticed that to ensure nss_ldap works fine, you will have to either add your computer accounts under people branch, or see to that your nss_ldap_passwd entry in /etc/ldap.conf looks at the common parent branch of where people accounts and computer accounts are located. This is one thing I stumbled on, which is obviously not in idealx docs. I was (probably still am) a newbie to LDAP and Samba at that time, so could not figure this out for almost a whole day. Another thing is to give the "Administrator" account (belonging to Samba PDC's Domain Admins group) gid of 0. I cannot remember the exact things that did not work with idealx right now, but if you get into trouble, please email. Good luck, Prakash