samba - Jun 2007 - Samba with AD Authentication Backend

Hello guys,

Please help me if you can. Has somebody ever managed to configure Samba PDC
to use AD  as an  authentication backend, i.e,  like an ldap backend.

I'am trying to build a system where Samba is my PDC and I want to
authenticate AD users in my Samba domain. I do not want to add Samba to AD
domain, and I can not use an Ldap Server (like OpenLdap).

Is this possible? What do I need to do?

Please help me.

Thanks in advance

> Please help me if you can. Has somebody ever managed to configure Samba PDC
> to use AD  as an  authentication backend, i.e,  like an ldap backend.
> I'am trying to build a system where Samba is my PDC and I want to
> authenticate AD users in my Samba domain. I do not want to add Samba to AD
> domain, and I can not use an Ldap Server (like OpenLdap).
> Is this possible? What do I need to do?
I doubt it.  But you can [I believe, last I knew] that you can establish
a trust between an AD domain and an NT4 domain (with a Samba PDC).  That
should provide access to domain resources by AD domain users.

On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 17:46 +0100, xpto 007 wrote:
> Hello guys,
> 
> Please help me if you can. Has somebody ever managed to configure Samba PDC
> to use AD  as an  authentication backend, i.e,  like an ldap backend.
> 
> I'am trying to build a system where Samba is my PDC and I want to
> authenticate AD users in my Samba domain. I do not want to add Samba to AD
> domain, and I can not use an Ldap Server (like OpenLdap).
> 
> Is this possible? What do I need to do?
Either Samba is a member of the AD domain (and not a DC itself), or
Samba is an NT4 compatible DC that possibly trusts the AD domain.  

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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