[PLUG] Samba, LDAP, and my sanity.

Eric Harrison eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us
Mon Mar 8 23:11:01 UTC 2004


On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Jeme A Brelin wrote:
>
>On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Matt Alexander wrote:
>> I've been struggling with Samba too.  I recently picked up an excellent
>> book, "The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide." ISBN:
>> 0-13-145355-6
>
>We don't all have US$40-50 to throw down on documentation.  There's, you
>know, food and stuff to consider first.

True, but John Terpstra is the author. I have a great deal of respect for
John and would not want to discourage anyone from helping support him.

>The fact is, I don't even really care about LDAP.  I just want Samba to do
>what I want it to do without a Windows Domain Controller.
>
>It seems like a fairly straightforward thing.  "Samba Single Sign-On
>How-To"  Why doesn't it exist?  Is it because it's not possible?

I've been working on automated scripts for Red Hat installs. The paths
and so on will likely be wrong for Debian, but you might still find it
educational to try to port these over. 

ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/donotuse/3.0/
ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/ldaphacks/

The naming convention belittles the usefulness.

-Eric





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