On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 1:57 AM, Lumeng Lim lumeng.lim@gmail.com wrote:

mind you i've only managed to setup ldap server under ubuntu for now.

we have 2 sites to manage and I would like for users( about 250 users total) in both sites that is connected via vpn to be able to login to samba/ldap in HQ

are there things to consider before going about just setting up ldap and samba? assuming that samba is going to be used as pdc and fileserver.

First, I would suggest that you get your samba+PDC working across the two sites using samba's built in auth. Second, verify *nix desktop users can be authenticated, across the VPN, for their login sessions with LDAP. Finally, integrate LDAP auth. into Samba.

HTH, -- Arun Khan