On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 10:23 -0300, Gustavo Mendes de Carvalho wrote:
Hi Everyone ,
I'm planning to mount an OpenLDAP+Samba server to authenticate windows machines, but I have a not so common situation. I have windows machines that does not belong either to some windows domain or workgroup, machines that belongs to some workgroup and meny machines that belongs to some specific and different domains, whitout trusted relantionship among them, including some windows cluster machines.
Is there any way to include all of them to authenticate in a single LDAP+Samba server ? I mean, to use samba without PDC or BDC or even some DC configured in Samba server...
I know that this question should be posted in Samba maillist, and I already did it, but does anybody here know something about this ?
Thanks in advance
Gustavo Mendes de Carvalho email: gmcarvalho@gmail.com
Hi,
yes, this is definitely a question for samba mailing list, the reason is that the samba backend (you want to use ldap in your case) has absolutely nothing to do with the samba behaviour. (well, openldap backend gives you the same as tdbsam, + offer replication (BDC).
samba is not magic, samba is WindowsNT4.0 domain controller (and little bit more than that). can you use NT4.0 PDC to solve your situation? you can't. so you can not with samba. the answer is a properly designed network, but this is absolutely not belonging to this list.
M.