[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
> --

oh, if you don't want to hassle of trying to join XP and W2K machines
to the samba domain look at pgina. Pgina will add PAM like
authentication to windows boxes so that it looks at LDAP for
authentication.

Matt