Hi I have setup more samba ldap dc's then I dare to think of and it's pretty easy, I used to script the whole thing and I had it online for others to download but I have not maintained it for a long while so it's way to old to be used today. If you are looking at the nt4 style then there is a great howto here: http://www.howtoforge.com/centos-5.x-samba-domain-controller-with-ldap-backend But mind you it could be a good idea to actually look at the samba4, it's getting pretty stable, I have installed it on a dev environment where is serves authentication to the dev servers and dev clients and has not given a day of shit really smooth installation also: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Main_Page#Samba4 Per On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 09:29 +0100, jean-No?l Chardron wrote: > Please do not cut the discussion list but post a new thread > > Shouben Zhou wrote: > > What is the best way to configure Window clients to authenticate from > > 389 DS? > > > I'm not sure but I have a small idea of it : if you don't have an > Active Directory server, a way is to setup a domain controler NT4 like > Samba (free software), It seems little bit complexe as you need to > setup a backend ldap server with a particular schema to store the > information of workstations, then setup the samba server, then join each > XP workstation to the domain of the Samba Server (exactly like AD) . > An another way is to replace the Gina.dll in windows XP by a new Gina to > auth from various source as ldap (there are some free project like > pGina.org that is hosted on sourceforge). In google look after "Gina" or > "pGina.org". I suppose you will need to replace the DLL and configure > each workstation that is waste time on a big park of stations. > > > -- > > Shouben Zhou > > Science Systems and Applications Inc.(SSAI) > > 1 Enterprise Pkwy, Hampton, VA 23666 > > Tel: (757)951-1905 Fax: (757)951-1900 > > Email: Shouben.Zhou at nasa.gov > > > > > > > > -- > > 389 users mailing list > > 389-users at lists.fedoraproject.org > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users > > > >
