SAMBA on a Windows Active Directory

xKintaro · 11-15-2008, 03:12 AM

LinuxQuestions SAMBA Gurus,

I have a question about SAMBA, and I am not entirely sure if what I want to be done can be done.

My family and I have taken advantage of Active Directory so we can share our PCs easily with a central location for accounts and authentication. We use Windows Server 2003 to do this and this isn't really negotiable by me because I am the only one who uses Linux. The question is basic: Can I get SAMBA to do its authentication with Active Directory?

John.

salasi · 11-16-2008, 03:36 AM

Almost uniquely, a google search on

Quote:

samba active directory

looks to give a whole page full of useful results.

xKintaro · 11-16-2008, 07:31 PM

I just figured someone here could answer and yes or no question so I'd know if Googleing the SAMBA howtos was a waste of time or not.

I've been using Linux for 9 bloody years now, I don't need documentation even, I just couldn't find it clearly stated on samba.org if they have caught up with ActiveDirectory which is something I know and use as a black box.

pixellany · 11-23-2008, 05:44 AM

xKintaro;

I can't help you with the substance, but salasi was not doing anything wrong. If I don't know something, but the question piques my curiousity, I will often do some Googling and then report that the results looked promising.

Reporting salasi's post was not appropriate.

arno · 11-23-2008, 05:21 PM

Yes it is possible, i have setup a connection between a samba server and a AD network in 2001.

devan1p · 11-23-2008, 11:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xKintaro

LinuxQuestions SAMBA Gurus,

I have a question about SAMBA, and I am not entirely sure if what I want to be done can be done.

My family and I have taken advantage of Active Directory so we can share our PCs easily with a central location for accounts and authentication. We use Windows Server 2003 to do this and this isn't really negotiable by me because I am the only one who uses Linux. The question is basic: Can I get SAMBA to do its authentication with Active Directory?

John.

Definitely this is possible although you have to work really hard to achieve the result. I have setup Windows 2003 Active Directory (With kerberos authentication) samba and squid. (This is in test mode). Now I can control users accessing internet through squid proxy using their login names instead of ipaddress. (Because of centralized authentication, the user can login from any machine in the lan)

Good Luck...!!!

TechnoBod · 12-18-2008, 09:24 AM

Quote:

Definitely this is possible although you have to work really hard to achieve the result. I have setup Windows 2003 Active Directory (With kerberos authentication) samba and squid. (This is in test mode). Now I can control users accessing internet through squid proxy using their login names instead of ipaddress. (Because of centralized authentication, the user can login from any machine in the lan)

Good Luck...!!!

Could you possibly post a any notes you made whilst doing this ??

I've tried googling this exact type of set up but I'm stuck at a certain point.

I can do a kinit username@domain and get a password request. I enter the password, and all suceeds.

When I try to run the "net ads join -S servername.domain.name -U administrator" I get and error saying the kerberos failed to lookup DC for domain whilst trying to obtain credentials, trying to connect via RPC.

devan1p · 12-20-2008, 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by TechnoBod

Could you possibly post a any notes you made whilst doing this ??

I've tried googling this exact type of set up but I'm stuck at a certain point.

I can do a kinit username@domain and get a password request. I enter the password, and all suceeds.

When I try to run the "net ads join -S servername.domain.name -U administrator" I get and error saying the kerberos failed to lookup DC for domain whilst trying to obtain credentials, trying to connect via RPC.

I'm sorry for being took this much time to reply. Was a little busy this week. I have the notes I made whilst configuring. How can i attach a pdf file to this thread? Is it possible? if not pm me. I'll send u the doc I have.