[Freeipa-users] authenticate samba 3 or 4 with freeipa

[Sandor Juhasz]

Hello, 

what is the best practice to authenticate samba file sharing with freeipa as auth service. 
Either version 3 or 4 of samba is fine, as we are looking for this only for filesharing and not 
domain service. 
Our ipa service is hosted on CentOS 6.5. 
The samba service is preferred to be hosted on Ubuntu Precise (12.04), later the new LTS. 

Found 3 methods, but all seem to have their issues. 


    1. LDAP, ldapsam passdb backend. -> needs ldap schema modification to include fields (sambaSAMAccount, sambaGroupMapping, samabaSID) and have IPA populate those with dna plugin 
    2. IPA, ipasam passdb backend -> did not find a working version from ipasam.so for ubuntu, mostly i did not find any 
    3. KRB, keytab -> seemed a bit messy, also needs ldap schema modification 


Sándor Juhász 
System Administrator 
ChemAxon Ltd . 
Building Hx, GraphiSoft Park, Záhony utca 7, Budapest, Hungary, H-1031 

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