[TriLUG] FC2: LDAP, Windows, and me

[Matt Pusateri]

On Mon, January 17, 2005 4:56 pm, Tommy Williams said:
>   Okay, at the end of my rope here.
>   Got my DNS server up and running, the host names and IP addresses
> happily resolve everywhere on my LAN. I have just completed
> configuration of OpenLDAP on my FC2 machine (the same one running
> named), lo-and-behold it serves the other linux machines with user
> informatio properly. Cheers!
>   Now I need to make my wife's computer and my gaming rig to "join"
> (?) the LDAP domain. I want to be able to perform one logon to access
> shared (samba) resources with these two Windows boxes but seem to have
> come to the end of the road.
>   Could anybody point me in the right direction, or even tell me where
> I need to start over at?  Thanks.
>
> --Tommy

Since it appears that you have LDAP working properly, then what you
would need to do is configure samba to use LDAP as it's backend.  You
will need to spend some time trolling the Samba site and archives.

Matt