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Date:  Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:43:06 +0100
From:  Everard Brown <bluequartz-mailing-list (at mark) brown-llabres.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:15815] Re: samba and Active Directory
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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Hi Jim,

Quoting Jim Dory <jdory (at mark) nomealaska.org>:
> I'm about to have our little network turned into an AD domain and want
> to keep our file share computer (and web and email) on
> CentOS/Bluequartz (or migrate to newer Centos). I realize they don't
> need Bluequartz so much but it is what I have. Just curious if I will
> need to recompile the samba that comes with CentOS for Kerberos, LDAP,
> and AD support, or is it built in to it already? I'm a gentoo user so
> know how to find this out with that distro - but not sure how you find
> out on yum packages..
>
> Other considerations?

I don't recall the package versions on BQ but, I would suggest that  
you make sure that the Samba version is higher that 3.0 before you  
even start.

Assuming it is Samba-3.x , you should find that it (Samba + OpenLDAP)  
will work as an AD server out of the box with just a little  
configuration wizardry and the assistance from the 'smbldap-tools'  
package.

It's not clear if you're doing it for the sake of doing it or if it is  
intended for some kind of production prototype/system however, if you  
need further assistance, feel free to ask - on or off list.

Everard