Re: XP to SuSE

From: Chris Cox (ccox_nopenotthis_at_airmail.net)
Date: 02/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 12:28:04 -0600

Todd wrote:
> I am a Microsoft systems engineer for the past 14 years.
>
> I am wanting to take the plunge but do not know beans about Linux. However I
> want to learn.
>
> I have set up an identical laptop with SuSE 9.0 on it and applied all
> patches, etc.
>
> I know I need Samba so I can connect to Windows servers on the network (I
> work for a Fortune 1000 company).
>
> However is there a way to set up Active Directory authentication? If so how
> or where are the documents for dummies?

AFAIK, you'll have LANMAN access for quite awhile. So you can
still use security = domain and point at your Active Directory
server as the password server. We run AD here and I export
our Unix home dirs via Samba and authenticate LANMAN style
the users to them so that it is transparent. They just browse
to the machine, see their home dir and pop right into it.
At another site, we actually use these home dirs as their
Windows home directory and associated it to a drive letter
using a custom login script (we also handle the %USERNAME%
problem for our Win98 clients). We also use PAM to autheticate
various services to the AD server.

With that said, Samba 3.0+ does support "real" GSS style kerberos
authentication against Windows and even allows Linux to be
the domain controller. But that doesn't ship by default with
SUSE... probably will be present in SUSE 9.1 (and SLES 9) if
I had to guess. I have not tried it yet... I know that the
Samba folks are a bit more interested in taking the place
of the domain controller than in integration right now... so
I'm not sure if it will do exactly what I want.

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