HI My name is Ben.T.George.
i followed http://www.edsiohio.com/images/advanced-AD-2009-05-18.pdf this tutorial my current status is .i successfully joined to the AD *bash-3.00# ./net ads join -U administrator Enter administrator's password: Using short domain name -- SRE Joined 'SUN1' to realm 'sre.com'* and Wbinfo shows the users and groups from the AD *bash-3.00# ./wbinfo -u SUN1+ramana SUN1+user1 SUN1+ben administrator guest support_388945a0 krbtgt teju ben ramana* *bash-3.00# ./wbinfo -g helpservicesgroup telnetclients domain computers domain controllers schema admins enterprise admins cert publishers domain admins domain users domain guests group policy creator owners ras and ias servers dnsadmins dnsupdateproxy* then i checked the AD,the Sun1 is listed under the computer tab. That means my connection side is success na..? this is my smb.conf file *# Samba config file created using SWAT # from UNKNOWN (ÿ¿û^H) # Date: 2010/09/29 17:37:34 [global] workgroup = SRE realm = SRE.COM <http://sre.com/> security = ADS idmap uid = 10000-20000 idmap gid = 10000-20000 winbind separator = + winbind use default domain = Yes [user1] path = /export/home/user1 valid users = user1, ramana, teju [ramana] path = /export/home/ramana valid users = ramana, teju [teju] path = /export/home/teju valid users = teju [ben] path = /export/home/ben valid users = ben [user1] path = /export/home/user1 valid users = ben, user1, ramana, teju* And Kerberos file: krb5.conf *[libdefaults] dns_lookup_realm = false default_realm = SRE.COM <http://sre.com/> ticket_lifetime = 600 kdc_req_checksum_type = 2 checksum_type = 2 ccache_type = 1 #[kdc] # profile = /krb5/var/krb5kdc/kdc.conf [logging] default = FILE:/usr/local/var/log/kdc.log kdc = FILE:/usr/local/var/log/kdc.log admin_server = FILE:/usr/local/var/log/adm.log [realms] SRE.COM <http://sre.com/> = { kdc = srec.sre.com:88 admin_server = srec.sre.com:749 # default_domain = SRE.COM <http://sre.com/> } [domain_realm] .sre.com = SRE.COM <http://sre.com/> sre.com = SRE.COM <http://sre.com/> [login] krb4_convert = 0* my need is,suppose ben is a user common to unix and windows.. when i login as ben through a windows machine,want to access the shared folder for ben in Unix.(without giving password for ben) another thing is when we change the password or username in Active Directory,it also affect the same user in the unix that means suppose i changes the user ben to ben1,and password...the changes must be written in the /etc/passwd and shadow file.. is there any way to do this..i a beginner to this.so please give me good advice Thanks Ben.T.George -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba