samba - May 2007 - Step by Step guide: Samba + Ldap backend

All,

I've looked around and cannot find an easy way to set up samba with an ldap
server. I have a working ldap server (email and other systems use it) and
I'd love to use that as our authentication backend to samba, so users just
have one name/password combination.

Can anyone link me to a good samba + ldap howto?

Thanks,

~ Aaron

Aaron,

The best has to be to follow the "Samba 3 by Example" guide on the
samba.org website. You can also get a dead-tree version, I think it's
now on the second edition.

The section dealing with starting with an LDAP backend is, I believe,
entitled "Making Happy Users".

Cheers

Alex

On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 12:48 -0500, Aaron Souza wrote:
> All,
> 
> I've looked around and cannot find an easy way to set up samba with an
ldap
> server. I have a working ldap server (email and other systems use it) and
> I'd love to use that as our authentication backend to samba, so users
just
> have one name/password combination.
> 
> Can anyone link me to a good samba + ldap howto?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> ~ Aaron