samba - Jul 2010 - Need suggestion for domain controller

Hi,

     I wish to establish domain controller based on Centos 5.x.I am
considering below setups.

1) Samba PDC
2) OpenLDAP
3) Combination of Samba PDC + LDAP

     I am confused to select one among above.Can anyone please suggest me?

> ? ? I wish to establish domain controller based on Centos 5.x.I am
> considering below setups.
>
> 1) Samba PDC
> 2) OpenLDAP
> 3) Combination of Samba PDC + LDAP
>
> ? ? I am confused to select one among above.Can anyone please suggest me?
All are valid. I mean when setting up a samba domain with open ldap
you should have at least 1 machine that is a PDC and at least 1
machine that has openldap on it. Unless this is a home install I
believe you should have at least 2 of each. The choice of how to
combine these services is up to the user. For my department (of less
than 50 users but 30TB of raid on a 100% gigabit network) I have 3 DCs
and 3 openldap servers. At the moment they are PDC + Openldap. Also
since I have no user shares on the domain controllers (all data is on
dual / quad core domain member servers) I have these as guests under a
vps (openvz or lxc).

John

Hi,

why don' t try samba4 . Look at my thread:
http://old.nabble.com/HOWTO-centOS-5.5-samba4-dns-dynamic-update-td29264678.html

Daniel

On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:04:11 +0530, masatheesh <masatheesh at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>      I wish to establish domain controller based on Centos 5.x.I am
> considering below setups.
> 
> 1) Samba PDC
> 2) OpenLDAP
> 3) Combination of Samba PDC + LDAP
> 
>      I am confused to select one among above.Can anyone please suggest
me?

I would consider a newer Linux distribution besides CentOS 5.x  I have
worked with RHEL and Fedora.   I think (not 100% sure) that Centos 5.x comes
with Samba 3.0.x  If you want Win 7 client support you would want samba
3.4.x or 3.5.x.    Which means either a more current linux release or
compiling it your self.  I also found that on RHEL client that openldap
server components were not included.

  

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Subject: [Samba] Need suggestion for domain controller

Hi,

     I wish to establish domain controller based on Centos 5.x.I am
considering below setups.

1) Samba PDC
2) OpenLDAP
3) Combination of Samba PDC + LDAP

     I am confused to select one among above.Can anyone please suggest me?
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On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Gaiseric Vandal
<gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would consider a newer Linux distribution besides CentOS 5.x ?I have
> worked with RHEL and Fedora. ? I think (not 100% sure) that Centos 5.x
comes
> with Samba 3.0.x ?If you want Win 7 client support you would want samba
> 3.4.x or 3.5.x. ? ?Which means either a more current linux release or
> compiling it your self. ?I also found that on RHEL client that openldap
> server components were not included.
You can also examine, and hopefully compile for yourself from SRPM,
the packages at http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/3.5/rhel/5/ to get you
up to version 3.5.x.

Please elaborate on why you do not like OpenLDAP and SambaPDC same machine?

RedHat sponsored FreeIPA.org does Samba, 389 ldap, Dns, pki all on one
machine.  So does win ads.

On 7/31/10, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> ? ? I wish to establish domain controller based on Centos 5.x.I am
>> considering below setups.
>>
>> 1) Samba PDC
>> 2) OpenLDAP
>> 3) Combination of Samba PDC + LDAP
>>
>> ? ? I am confused to select one among above.Can anyone please suggest
me?
>
> All are valid. I mean when setting up a samba domain with open ldap
> you should have at least 1 machine that is a PDC and at least 1
> machine that has openldap on it. Unless this is a home install I
> believe you should have at least 2 of each. The choice of how to
> combine these services is up to the user. For my department (of less
> than 50 users but 30TB of raid on a 100% gigabit network) I have 3 DCs
> and 3 openldap servers. At the moment they are PDC + Openldap. Also
> since I have no user shares on the domain controllers (all data is on
> dual / quad core domain member servers) I have these as guests under a
> vps (openvz or lxc).
>
> John
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The quick solution here is to head over to turnkeylinux.org and use 
their prebuilt setup to handle this.  I've not used it  (yet), but if 
it's as good as their other stuff, it's probably quite nice.

Jack

On 07/31/10 07:34 AM, masatheesh wrote:
> Hi,
>
>       I wish to establish domain controller based on Centos 5.x.I am
> considering below setups.
>
> 1) Samba PDC
> 2) OpenLDAP
> 3) Combination of Samba PDC + LDAP
>
>       I am confused to select one among above.Can anyone please suggest me?
>