Active Directory Domain on Ubuntu

[Mariano Jara]

On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 21:37 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: 
> On Wednesday, November 10, 2010 08:31 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
> > On Wednesday, November 10, 2010 06:56 PM, Mariano Jara wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 08:52 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
> >>> On Wednesday, November 10, 2010 05:54 AM, Mariano Jara wrote:
> >> <snip>
> >>>
> >>> What do you need to do? Be able to access Windows? Be able to join the ADS?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I've installed from the repositories:
> >>>>
> >>>> likewise-open_5.4.0.42111-2ubuntu1.2_i386.deb
> >>>> likewise-open-gui_5.4.0.42111-2ubuntu1.2_i386.deb
> >>>>
> >> <snip>
> >>
> >> Hi Christopher,
> >>
> >> Thanks for answering. What I need is to be able to to join the ADS.
> >>
> >
> > samba + winbind + pam...
> >
> > Not a simple thing...
> >
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ActiveDirectoryWinbindHowto
> 
> That page is mostly correct...
> 
> Things it does not talk about are the relevant kerberos options to set 
> in smb.conf.
> 
> The link it refers to (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Samba/Kerberos) 
> is out of date for the version of samba that is supplied in Lucid.
> 
> Do not create the keytab. Samba can do that for you when you join the 
> domain but you have to set relevant kerberos parameters in smb.conf.
> 
> Sorry but I am going to have to leave this half answered...
> 
> 

Thanks Christopher. Yes, I presume it won't be a simple thing
(especially for a user of my skill), but I'll give a go.

Don't worry about your half answer, with those links you posted I have
plenty of homework to do. As soon as I have the chance (I'm at work now,
behind a proxy with limited internet access) I'll go through them.

-- 
Mariano

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