Irene Sakellarakis wrote:
I am investigating options for using Samba 3.0.7.2.FC1 (Red Hat Fedora Core 1 basic installation, currently updating via yum) as a primary and only domain controller. We have a Windows user environment, and I'm trying to connect the user machines (XP fully patched as of this writing) to the samba domain but keep getting one of 2 errors: 1) "authentication failed", when I use the (smb) administrator account and password; 2) "user not known" when using the root account.
I've created the users (both unix and samba), mapped my groups, edited admin groups with the right entries). Frankly, I'm at a loss as to whether this is even feasible, realistically.
I've searched the various groups online but any reference I find to this type of setup is with pre-W2k clients and Samba 2.* versions. All the discussions I've found pertaining to 3.0 and W2k/XP are only documenting existing problems similar to mine with no responses to those threads.
Is it possible (at this point "advisable" has been thrown out the window by higher-ups) to get this functioning as a complete replacement to a Windows200* server environment? The official HowTo seems to hint at it, but I find little or no actual instruction on the matter.
Thanks much, in advance, Irene
It is doable -- could you post your /etc/samba/smb.conf? As to whether or not it is advisable as a replacement for a Win2k environment there are a few things to take into consideration:
1. Samba3 cannot act as an Active Directory DC
2. If you want any failover you will need to have an LDAP backend
3. Fedora Core is not supported -- you might wish to consider moving to a supported OS (RHEL, SusE, Solaris etc.)
4. Staff needs to have the appropriate *nix/Samba skills to administer the environment
Christian
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