I already Setup Samba Domain Controller with LDAP Backend in Ubuntu 12.04 / 13:04
See more at: http://www.unixmen.com/setup-samba-d....P6UnTNp7.dpuf

In that tutorial shows how to join a windows client to samba domain and it works but how we can join the ubuntu client to samba domain like windows did?

From login system using the user accounts that created from the domain server?

The easiest way that I have found to do this is to set up the clients with libpam_ldapd. The Debian wiki has good instructions on this. It worked for me with Linux Mint 12 clients (authenticating against an Opensuse ldap/samba server) so it should be good for Ubuntu clients.

https://wiki.debian.org/LDAP/PAM

You might need to do a bit of research about pam in order to manage such details as home directory creation and/or mounting.

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Thanks Sir.
I'll work this out...
Till then.

Hello Sir Greenfuse,
May I know what are the steps on how to setting-up or configured this one successfully?
Because we want it to be successfully connected in less of time. When I edit on pam files if it is not successful correct, the unit after reboot will not go through but to hang up(just black screen with underscore on upper left).

Follow-up Q.
What did you use to join with the ldap/samba server? Is it likewise, net, net rpc?

It is not a matter of 'joining' the samba server with a linux client. It is a question of authenticating against the server. Pam is a set of modules that are used for authentication. When you have the correct module installed for pam - in this case it is libpam-ldapd - you then need to configure the settings in the files located in /etc/pam.d for authentication to occur. The usual way this works is when a user logs in to the linux client, the desktop manager (such as GDM) will check the name and password with pam, which checks with the samba/ldap server.

The home page of libpam-ldapd (formerly named nss-pam-ldapd) http://arthurdejong.org/nss-pam-ldapd/setup explains how to configure the necessary files. The main ones are
/etc/nslcd.conf which specifies the details of the ldap server.
/etc/nsswitch.conf which specifies the name service switches.
files in /etc/pam.d - common-session, common-account, common-auth, common-password (Everywhere that pam_unix is called you should also call pam_ldap.)

Note - I had problems when trying to use samba shares as home directories. I eventually used NFS shares for this but if you have a mixed Windows and Linux environment you might need to design your own solution.

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Hello sir,
Thank you so much. It works! wew.