[K12OSN] two samba servers on one Win2k3 domain without trusts?

Conrad Lawes pxeboot at gmail.com
Tue Jul 10 02:18:24 UTC 2007


Exactly my point.  You want setup a second Linux server to participate in
AD, yeah?  This is exactly what sadms is designed to do.  I wish I knew
about this tool when I first attempted to this.   Save yourself the manual
labour and the possible pitfalls,  check out http://sadms.sourceforge.net/

Thank me later.



On 7/9/07, john <lists.john at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Conrad and Les,
>
>
> Here's the thing. I have been running 1 server with auth to AD via
> winbind and kerberos for 6 months. Now I want to install another
> server, but short of creating a whole other domain with SAMBA as a PDC
> and setting up a trust, I can't see how to do it.
>
> PLEASE point me at the simple "just edit pam to use" AD howto!
>
> Thanks!
>
> John
>
> On 7/9/07, Conrad Lawes <pxeboot at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Here's a thought:
> >
> > Why not have  your Samba servers participate  as member servers in
> Active
> > Directory?
> > In so doing, you can administer all your Windows and Linux computer and
> user
> > accounts using the standard Windows MMC.
> >
> > You can configure your Samba servers to be ldap/winbind clients
> > authenticating to AD.
> >  The beauty of the Linux PAM stack is that you can point it to an AD
> > authentication source via winbind and/or LDAP.
> >
> > Why maintain 2  user directories when one will suffice?  Administration
> is
> > much easier if you can keep all your computer and user objects in a
> single
> > directory.
> >
> > I assume that you have no plans to get rid of  AD in the near future, if
> at
> > all.
> >
> > Check out http://sadms.sourceforge.net/  for more information.
> >
> >
> > On 7/9/07, john <lists.john at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Is it possible to have two samba servers on a win2k3 domain without
> > > using NT style trusts? Put another way, must one of the Samba servers
> > > always be a PDC for its own domain and host something like LDAP for
> > > all other samba servers?
> > >
> > > Is there someone out there who REALLY groks SAMBA?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > John
> > >
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> > Conrad Lawes
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-- 
Regards,
Conrad Lawes
PXE Guru
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