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Adam Williams wrote:
Is it possible to have multiple domains and all of them authenticate to one PDC running openldap?

Each building at work has a network segment, 10.8.1.x - 10.8.18.x, each having their own samba server using smbpasswd and DOMAIN name. Like the server arrowhead 10.8.9.2 has domain = HPADMIN in smb.conf, server archives 10.8.8.2 has domain = OLDCAPITOL in smb.conf, roark 10.8.2.3 has domain = ADMIN in smb.conf.

I'd like to replace all of these smbpasswd backends with a single LDAP server and am reading Samba 3 by Example. Would it be possible to have each server keep its seperate DOMAIN = configuration, but have them all use the PDC of roark for authentication on its OpenLDAP configuration?

You can't use a single PDC, but you can have all your inidividual PDCs use the same LDAP server as a backend -- you just reconfigure each of the existing domain controllers with its own base distinguished name within the LDAP server... e.g.:

    dc=hpadmin,dc=your,dc=domain
    dc=oldcapitol,dc=your,dc=domain
    dc=admin,dc=your,dc=domain

Migrating the accounts from the local smbpasswd to LDAP is left as an exercise for the sysadmin :-) but as long as you give each domain its own branch in your LDAP database, you should not run into problems.

Don Piven

What about just having a dc=ldap,dc=your,dc=domain with all the user accounts in it, and then every samba PDC use passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://ldap.your.domain

Basically I just want it so all the username/passwords are in a central location so when a user does ctrl-alt-del and clicks change password, it will change their windows logon password, their email password, etc. i just have to also keep the legacy PDC servers because of registry and file permissions. otherwise I have to load the registry hive of 100 users and change the permissions on them and their profiles.



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