Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Wednesday, June 01, 2005 3:53 PM -0400 David Hollis > <dhollis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Now that the directory server is starting to trickle out, I'd love to >> see that incorporated with some form of administration tool. I've done >> a bunch of LDAP setups in recent months and can now finally manage it >> from command line/LDIFs but it really doesn't have to be that tough to >> get a simple directory setup. The great part about it is that once it's >> setup, it can do quite a bit and even act as an Active Directory domain >> controller which is really a beautiful thing. > > > Agreed. I'm trying to get up to speed on deploying OpenLDAP together > with the Samba schema to get single sign-on and a global address book, > but it's been tough marshaling all the HOWTO's to figure out what's > really required. I went down a wrong path using the PADL scripts bundled > with OpenLDAP (because I failed to select the "enhanced" schema in the > common config file) and they also fail badly on the /etc/services file > due to the presence of Apple protocols. So far the best information for > initial setup seems to be in the HOWTO's at <http://samba.idealx.org/>, > but I'm still working through it to understand how to migrate my > existing setup. > > I'd recommend that anyone starting out get the smbtools from idealx and > also get phpldapadmin set up on Apache to maintain the thing and get a > more visual understanding of how things are organized. Hopefully > volunteers will step forward to bring these into Extras. The smbldap-tools scripts are already being distributed with samba Unfortunately the scripts are being packaged as documentation by Red-Hat: # rpm -ql samba | grep smbldap-tools /usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7 /usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7/CONTRIBUTORS ... /usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7/smbldap-groupadd /usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7/smbldap-groupdel /usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7/smbldap-groupmod /usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7/smbldap-groupshow /usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7/smbldap-passwd /usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7/smbldap-populate /usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7/smbldap-useradd /usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7/smbldap-userdel /usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7/smbldap-userinfo /usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7/smbldap-usermod /usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7/smbldap-usershow /usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7/smbldap.conf /usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7/smbldap_bind.conf /usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.14a/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.8.7/smbldap_tools.pm jpo -- José Pedro Oliveira * mailto: jpo@xxxxxxxxxxxx * http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/~jpo * * gpg fingerprint = F9B6 8D87 859D 1C94 48F0 84C0 9749 9EB5 91BD 851B *
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