[Freeipa-users] ipa samba win7

[Ondrej Valousek]

Well, if you want to integrate Windows machines, you'd better to stick with Samba (you can try Samba 4 if you prefer the IPA-like integration).
IPA itself "looks and feels" like AD but it is not compatible with AD - it is intended mainly for Linux machines.

Ondrej


On 07/10/2012 03:25 PM, george he wrote:
> Hi Ondrej,
> The win7 is standing alone. I don't have an AD for it.
> I used to have a samba domain controller that took care of user authentication for both linux and winxp machines.
> Thanks,
> George
>
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>     *From:* Ondrej Valousek <ondrejv at s3group.cz>
>     *To:* freeipa-users at redhat.com
>     *Sent:* Tuesday, July 10, 2012 9:12 AM
>     *Subject:* Re: [Freeipa-users] ipa samba win7
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>     Do you have an AD for the win7 machine or is it just standalone machine?
>     Ondrej
>
>     On 07/10/2012 03:01 PM, george he wrote:
>>     Hello all,
>>     I have an ipa client that is also a file server. How do I set up a samba server on the file server so that the files can be accessed
>>     by a win7 machine, which is not a member of the ipa realm?
>>     Should I set the file server as a domain controller? How do I deal with the "passdb backend" option? I guess I can set it to
>>     "ldapsam", but the user information is kept on the ipa server, not the file server.
>>     What else should I take care of before I start?
>>     ps. my ipa version is 2.2, running on fc17.
>>     Thanks,
>>     George
>>
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