[Samba] How to Join Samba Client to a Samba PDC Domain with ldap?

Hi People.

I have a domain running samba 3.0.28 with Gentoo+ LDAP+smbldap-tools.

Is running very well, I have about 15 WinXP clients + 1 Win2K3 server.

Is easy to add a win machine to the domain, but now I need to add a
linux box running Centos 5.2, But I have my doubts:

Do I need to edit in my client the openldap settings?
I just need samba?
How my samba client is going to read the users from the LDAP server?
What I have to do...

I have been searching some examples in the how-to, but I still don't
found this info.

Could someone pint me some links where exist this info? I will
appreciated a lot, thanks for your time people.

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Alberto Moreno a écrit :
> Hi People.
>
> I have a domain running samba 3.0.28 with Gentoo+ LDAP+smbldap-tools.
>
> Is running very well, I have about 15 WinXP clients + 1 Win2K3 server.
>
> Is easy to add a win machine to the domain, but now I need to add a
> linux box running Centos 5.2, But I have my doubts:
>
> Do I need to edit in my client the openldap settings?
> I just need samba?
> How my samba client is going to read the users from the LDAP server?
> What I have to do...
>
See libnss-ldap and libpam-ldap.

> Could someone pint me some links where exist this info? I will
> appreciated a lot, thanks for your time people.
>
Sorry, only in french...


Manu


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you want to have samba on your centos 5.2 system join the samba domain
handled by samba/ldap on your PDC?

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On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Adam Williams
<awilliam@mdah.state.ms.us> wrote:
> you want to have samba on your centos 5.2 system join the samba domain
> handled by samba/ldap on your PDC?
>
>

Yes Adams thats what I whant to do.

Albert give some points, now about the point where I need to
configure ldap inside my client (Centos), I need to run slapd inside
my client? or what SW i need to run? (I know that I need to run samba,
Albert say that I don't need winbind)

In my client, I don't need to edit anything inside /etc/openldap/ ?
just /etc/ldap.conf?

To get the users from my PDC, I have to edit the same files I edit
inside my PDC(nsswitch.conf, systems-auth, etc)?

This is new for me, this is way I have a lot of doubts, I read the
manuals, but I still have some holes.

Thanks for your support.

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On Friday 22 August 2008 09:37:02 Alberto Moreno wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Adam Williams
>
> <awilliam@mdah.state.ms.us> wrote:
> > you want to have samba on your centos 5.2 system join the samba domain
> > handled by samba/ldap on your PDC?
>
> Yes Adams thats what I whant to do.
>
> Albert give some points, now about the point where I need to
> configure ldap inside my client (Centos), I need to run slapd inside
> my client? or what SW i need to run? (I know that I need to run samba,
> Albert say that I don't need winbind)
>
> In my client, I don't need to edit anything inside /etc/openldap/ ?
> just /etc/ldap.conf?
>
> To get the users from my PDC, I have to edit the same files I edit
> inside my PDC(nsswitch.conf, systems-auth, etc)?
>
> This is new for me, this is way I have a lot of doubts, I read the
> manuals, but I still have some holes.
>
> Thanks for your support.
>
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> LIving the dream...

Have you read chapters 5 and 7 of the samab3-ByExample book?
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba3-ByExample.pdf

I know you read the manuals, but it is not clear "which" manuals you have
read.

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/etc/ldap.conf will handle the linux shell accounts, use
authconfig-tui. for getting samba on your centos 5.2 server talking to
your PDC, see chapter 7 of Samba 3 by example.pdf. you won't need to
run slapd on your centos 5.2 server unless you want to have it act as a
slave/read only/replication LDAP server to your PDC server which isn't
required.

Alberto Moreno wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Adam Williams
> <awilliam@mdah.state.ms.us> wrote:
>
>> you want to have samba on your centos 5.2 system join the samba domain
>> handled by samba/ldap on your PDC?
>>
>>
>>
>
> Yes Adams thats what I whant to do.
>
> Albert give some points, now about the point where I need to
> configure ldap inside my client (Centos), I need to run slapd inside
> my client? or what SW i need to run? (I know that I need to run samba,
> Albert say that I don't need winbind)
>
> In my client, I don't need to edit anything inside /etc/openldap/ ?
> just /etc/ldap.conf?
>
> To get the users from my PDC, I have to edit the same files I edit
> inside my PDC(nsswitch.conf, systems-auth, etc)?
>
> This is new for me, this is way I have a lot of doubts, I read the
> manuals, but I still have some holes.
>
> Thanks for your support.
>
>
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On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Adam Williams
<awilliam@mdah.state.ms.us> wrote:
> /etc/ldap.conf will handle the linux shell accounts, use authconfig-tui.
> for getting samba on your centos 5.2 server talking to your PDC, see chapter
> 7 of Samba 3 by example.pdf. you won't need to run slapd on your centos 5.2
> server unless you want to have it act as a slave/read only/replication LDAP
> server to your PDC server which isn't required.
>
> Alberto Moreno wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Adam Williams
> <awilliam@mdah.state.ms.us> wrote:
>
>
> you want to have samba on your centos 5.2 system join the samba domain
> handled by samba/ldap on your PDC?
>
>
>
>
> Yes Adams thats what I whant to do.
>
> Albert give some points, now about the point where I need to
> configure ldap inside my client (Centos), I need to run slapd inside
> my client? or what SW i need to run? (I know that I need to run samba,
> Albert say that I don't need winbind)
>
> In my client, I don't need to edit anything inside /etc/openldap/ ?
> just /etc/ldap.conf?
>
> To get the users from my PDC, I have to edit the same files I edit
> inside my PDC(nsswitch.conf, systems-auth, etc)?
>
> This is new for me, this is way I have a lot of doubts, I read the
> manuals, but I still have some holes.
>
> Thanks for your support.
>
>

Thanks all u people.

Following your instructions I had finally add my Linux box to my domain.

I was reading the samba by example before + official how-to + www
docs but I didn't understand very well, but today my brain was
concentrate and with the info u people give to me I finally understand
the process.

Thanks again from your great help all of u!!!

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Manu,

You have 2 choices - your call ...

1. Have the Centos box act like a Windows PC, by installing Winbind, and
then join the Samba domain. The Samba Howto has information about that.
In this case, it is irrelevant that the Samba database is LDAP.

2. Since you are using smbldap-tools, I presume the LDAP database holds
posix information about each Samba user?
If so, you can set up your Centos box to use LDAP for authentication, so
that anyone listed in LDAP can log onto the Centos box.
If you need to access Samba shared files, then you will also need to
install smbclient. Also, pyNeighbourhood is a nice GUI for accessing
Samba shares from Linux.

Regards,
David Collins


On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 04:52 +0200, manu Baylac wrote:

> Alberto Moreno a écrit :
> > Hi People.
> >
> > I have a domain running samba 3.0.28 with Gentoo+ LDAP+smbldap-tools.
> >
> > Is running very well, I have about 15 WinXP clients + 1 Win2K3 server.
> >
> > Is easy to add a win machine to the domain, but now I need to add a
> > linux box running Centos 5.2, But I have my doubts:
> >
> > Do I need to edit in my client the openldap settings?
> > I just need samba?
> > How my samba client is going to read the users from the LDAP server?
> > What I have to do...
> >
> See libnss-ldap and libpam-ldap.
>
> > Could someone pint me some links where exist this info? I will
> > appreciated a lot, thanks for your time people.
> >
> Sorry, only in french...
>
>
> Manu
>
>
>
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