samba - Mar 2005 - Samba + PDC + LDAP (Sun One DS 5.2, Messaging and Identity)

Hello,
I am planing to install Samba as PDC for Windows XP Machines and LDAP
(Sun ONE DS 5.2 + Messaging + Identity ) as backend sam
if some one have already setup this kind of environment and can write
down the steps in which order i have to install and configure products
what would be great

i am planing to go in following order

Install Solaris
Install Sun One DS 5.2 + messaging + identity 
configure DS 
Configure Solaris to logon to DS ( i have to do some research about
how to do this)
configure Messageing and update schema with Identity native schema
install samba with ldapsam 
configure Samba

i will appriciate if some one can guide me or give his input 

Regards

Tipu.

>i am planing to go in following order
>
>Install Solaris
>Install Sun One DS 5.2 + messaging + identity 
>configure DS 
>Configure Solaris to logon to DS ( i have to do some research about
>how to do this)
>configure Messageing and update schema with Identity native schema
>  
>
Be sure at this point that your LDAP authentication is absolutely 
solid.  Yes it's an overly general statement like 'make sure your car is
running well before going out on the highway' but it is important.  If 
you have problems within LDAP, they'll be harder to spot after you try 
to layer samba on.  If you have replication, test the crap out of it.  
Make sure auth works for all the services you want.  If you store the 
kitchen sink in LDAP make sure the drain runs properly.
>install samba with ldapsam 
>  
>
This will include compiling and installing the openldap libraries so 
that samba has something to link against.  You won't be using anything 
other than libraries, no services, etc..
>configure Samba
>  
>
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Hafiz Abdul Rehman [tipu20@gmail.com] wrote:
> 
> I am planing to install Samba as PDC for Windows XP Machines and LDAP
> (Sun ONE DS 5.2 + Messaging + Identity ) as backend sam
> if some one have already setup this kind of environment and can write
> down the steps in which order i have to install and configure products
> what would be great
I'd suggest thinking about the design a bit more - the basic question
is: what is the purpose of Sun Messaging and Identity Servers ?

The latter might be highly useful (at least judging from specs) when
integrating with legacy MS Active Directory but I can't think of any
use of the former ;-) 

The Directory Server is a very solid and feature rich Ldap
implementation though. What you will need to "tweak":

- uploading the samba schema 
- configuring the TLS for secure communication with samba

If you're going to deploy samba on Solaris I'd suggest compiling with
openldap libraries. But do not switch the whole solaris ldap client
side to it. The native tools are very mature and can be configured
easily with DS in a secure way (because of "proxyagent").

Let us know if you have any specific problem.

Cheers,
 
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Michal Kurowski
<mkur@gazeta.pl>