[Fedora-directory-users] Windows Authentication

[Patrick Morris]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Jared B. Griffith wrote:

> Has anyone gotten windows computers to successfully authenticate against Fedora Directory Server?
> If so is there a walk through online somewhere?
> Or is it just ridiculously easy to do?
> Or is it like having a windows computer join an active directory domain?

Windows machines will not authenticate directly with an LDAP server.
You'd need to do something like set up Samba using LDAP as a back end.

There are plenty of how-to's out there.  Googling "samba ldap domain
controller" should be enough to get you started.