Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-18 Thread Thomas Charron
On 1/17/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Original message --From: Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Okay, but what does any of that Heimdal/Kerberos stuff have to do with authenticating NTLM clients? Nothing, but

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-17 Thread Ben Scott
On 1/16/06, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read that as saying, in order to be an AD DC, Samba would have to have all the functionality it has now, plus all the functionality of an LDAP server, plus all the functionality of a Kerberos server. We have all those parts. It's unix.

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-17 Thread Paul Lussier
Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Jan 16, 2006, at 11:26, Paul Lussier wrote: Windows clients can not do resolution against one entity (LDAP) and authentication against another (Kerberos) *unless* it's against Active Directory. AD does use LDAP and Kerberos for most of its heavy

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-17 Thread Paul Lussier
Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: True, however, it would seem Kenny seems to intend to not require any auth traffic to have to go over the wire to the remote site. So in reality, when authenticating via LDAP, he'd want to replicate the LDAP server is TWO locations. Not so! You

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-17 Thread Paul Lussier
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Footnotes - [1] To the best of my knowledge, anyway. If someone know of a working, stable Samba AD DC implementation, please let me know! Currently it is non-existent. [2] I understand work is underway to add AD control eventually, but until

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-17 Thread Paul Lussier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The reason for this is that people will travel between here and there quite often, Yeah, so. Just set the ACLs up to allow anyone in 'ou=*, ou=corp, dc=foo, dc=com' access to whatever you want everyone to access. This is completely ineffectualy, since they will

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-17 Thread Ben Scott
On 1/17/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True, however, it would seem Kenny seems to intend to not require any auth traffic to have to go over the wire to the remote site. So in reality, when authenticating via LDAP, he'd want to replicate the LDAP server is TWO locations. Not

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-17 Thread Ben Scott
On 1/17/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [3] I expect that would include keeping the NTLM password hashes in LDAP, but I don't really know. That is correct, which is one of the reasons you can almost approximate Kerberos authentication with Samba if you use the Heimdal Kerberos

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-17 Thread Ben Scott
On 1/17/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're lacking some ingenuity here. Every Samba server is the PDC for it's local physical network, and a BDC for the remote network. Ummm... I'm pretty sure that's completely wrong. An NTLM server can only be one thing; either a member, a

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-17 Thread Paul Lussier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -- Original message -- From: Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 1/16/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True, however, it would seem Kenny seems to intend to not require any auth traffic to have to go over the wire to

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-17 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jan 17, 2006, at 09:55, Paul Lussier wrote: No, WinBind, from: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ winbind.html states that it does exactly the opposite of what is desired here. It allows a random UNIX box to authenticate against a Windows NT domain

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-17 Thread Paul Lussier
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -- Ben Scott I want to move to theory. Everything works there. -- Unknown Actually, I think that was me! I say that rather frequently, and I *know* I've said at Martha's before... Of course, I could have stolen it from someone else, but if so, I don't

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-17 Thread Ben Scott
On 1/17/06, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm. What I know empirically is that when I setup a linux server to participate in an AD domain, to authenticate the AD users I need to have k5 and winbind working on the linux machine. Without Kerberos, you go nowhere fast. Yes.

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-17 Thread Thomas Charron
On 1/16/06, Dan Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Charron wrote:Umm. Note the features in Samba 3.0:*1) Active Directory support. Samba 3.0 is now able to ** joina ADS realm as a member server and authenticate ** users usingLDAP/Kerberos. * I don't know if this is entirely acurate, as

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-17 Thread Thomas Charron
On 1/17/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: He doesn't want 2 domains.He wants 1. Then he can't do what he wants.What's the problem with two domains?Technically, they're *sub* domains, and for all intents and purposes,he manages them as one.The users

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-17 Thread Paul Lussier
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Okay, but what does any of that Heimdal/Kerberos stuff have to do with authenticating NTLM clients? Nothing, but he keeps talking about AD authentication, which Kerberos *would* be a component of if it would work. And at one point, there was a more

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-17 Thread Paul Lussier
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 1/17/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're lacking some ingenuity here. Every Samba server is the PDC for it's local physical network, and a BDC for the remote network. Ummm... I'm pretty sure that's completely wrong. An NTLM server can

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-17 Thread Paul Lussier
Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmmm. What I know empirically is that when I setup a linux server to participate in an AD domain, to authenticate the AD users I need to have k5 and winbind working on the linux machine. Without Kerberos, you go nowhere fast. Correct, but that's to

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-17 Thread Michael ODonnell
By coincidence I just now stumbled across this link and thought I'd pass it along on the chance it's at least of passing interest to those reading this thread: http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=217 I didn't read more than a few paragraphs so apologies in

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-17 Thread klussier
-- Original message -- From: Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Okay, but what does any of that Heimdal/Kerberos stuff have to do with authenticating NTLM clients? Nothing, but he keeps talking about AD authentication,

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-17 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jan 17, 2006, at 18:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They allow users to only have one password, and it allows me to be lazy. And never underestimate the value of a Post-It-Note-free security regime. -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-17 Thread Ben Scott
On 1/17/06, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By coincidence I just now stumbled across this link and thought I'd pass it along on the chance it's at least of passing interest to those reading this thread: http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=217 More

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-17 Thread Ben Scott
Samba PDC at the home office, and a Samba BDC at the remote site, regular user authentication traffic at the remote site should use the BDC at that site. Password changes and account modifications (including machine trust account auto-updates) will have to go to the PDC (over the WAN), though

Windoze roaming profiles (was: Samba PDC/BDC)

2006-01-17 Thread Ben Scott
On 1/17/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wasn't explicitely wanting roaming profiles (as I view them as evil). May I ask why? I've generally found they make things a lot better. Lock down the workstations, no root access for the lusers, use domain authentication and roaming

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-17 Thread Ben Scott
On 1/17/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have every samba server be the PDC for local, and the BDC for the remote domains. Ahhh, okay. Yah, that makes sense. And yes, this would require seperate instances of Samba running on the same machine. I believe you also need to bind

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-17 Thread Paul Lussier
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the case of a single NTLM domain, with a single Samba PDC at the home office, and a Samba BDC at the remote site, regular user authentication traffic at the remote site should use the BDC at that site. Password changes and account modifications

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-17 Thread Ben Scott
, and you seem to know LDAP pretty well, I've got a question: Assume the Samba PDC at the main office passes the password change (or whatever) on to LDAP at the main office, and that all succeeds and everything. How does the LDAP server at the remote site know that the LDAP database at the home

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-17 Thread Paul Lussier
on the subject, and you seem to know LDAP pretty well, I've got a question: Assume the Samba PDC at the main office passes the password change (or whatever) on to LDAP at the main office, and that all succeeds and everything. How does the LDAP server at the remote site know that the LDAP database

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-16 Thread Paul Lussier
Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Samba as a PDC w/o any windows servers. Just clients. Check out the Samba guides from the Bruce Perens series by PTR (which, btw, are all downloadable in pdf from the side). I don't remember the site, but googling for Bruce Perens PTR ought to get you

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-16 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jan 16, 2006, at 11:26, Paul Lussier wrote: Windows clients can not do resolution against one entity (LDAP) and authentication against another (Kerberos) *unless* it's against Active Directory. AD does use LDAP and Kerberos for most of its heavy lifting. Do we know what the missing

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-16 Thread Thomas Charron
On 1/16/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While I thouroughly enjoyed the well thought out LDAP plan, if you notice, my question was more about the Samba set up. I already have LDAP set up in much that fashion. There are a few things that I did differently, but

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-16 Thread klussier
-- Original message -- From: Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You seem to think there's a separation of components here. Not so. Setting Samba up to use LDAP means to authenticate against LDAP. Therfore, your LDAP configuration

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-16 Thread klussier
These should get you started: http://www.donour.com/prof/cifs2002.pdf. http://info.ccone.at/INFO/Samba-2.2.12/Samba-PDC-HOWTO.html http://www.dekart.com/support/howto/Howto-Logon-Samba/Samba_domain_controller/ FYI, Kenny -- Original message -- From: Tom Buskey

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-16 Thread Ben Scott
anything about LDAP. The LDAP server(s) speak LDAP to Samba, and don't know anything about NTLM. Samba acts as a sort of gateway between the two worlds. NTLM password changes would have to go to the Samba PDC, which would presumably push them to LDAP, which would then provide updated answers to all

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-16 Thread Ben Scott
On 1/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the Windows client can't find it's authentication point, it creates a temprary profile on the system to allow login and deletes the profile when the user logs off (I hate myself for knowing this...). What you are describing are

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-16 Thread klussier
-- Original message -- From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 1/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the Windows client can't find it's authentication point, it creates a temprary profile on the system to allow login and deletes the profile when

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-16 Thread Ben Scott
On 1/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I know. I was just demonstrating what happens when a laptop configured as a member of the HERE domain can't find it's DC. IOW, it doesn't try to authenticate against the DC for the THERE domain. Ah. Yes. To further expand

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-16 Thread Bill McGonigle
Apparently the magic pixie dust is some sort of RPC mechanism. Found this here: http://info.ccone.at/INFO/Samba/Samba-Guide/kerberos.html - Active Directory Replacement with Kerberos, LDAP, and Samba The Microsoft networking protocols extensively make use of remote procedure call

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-16 Thread Thomas Charron
On 1/16/06, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently the magic pixie dust is some sort of RPC mechanism.Found this here: http://info.ccone.at/INFO/Samba/Samba-Guide/kerberos.htmlAt this time, the integration of LDAP, Kerberos, and the missingRPCs is not on the Samba development roadmap.

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-16 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Monday 16 January 2006 05:48 pm, Thomas Charron wrote: Umm. Note the features in Samba 3.0: *1) Active Directory support. Samba 3.0 is now able to ** join a ADS realm as a member server and authenticate ** users using LDAP/Kerberos. * I don't know if this is entirely

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-16 Thread Dan Jenkins
Thomas Charron wrote: On 1/16/06, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At this time, the integration of LDAP, Kerberos, and the missing RPCs is not on the Samba development roadmap. If it is not on the published roadmap, it cannot be delivered anytime soon. Ergo, ADS server support is

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-16 Thread Ben Scott
On 1/16/06, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently the magic pixie dust is some sort of RPC mechanism. Found this here: http://info.ccone.at/INFO/Samba/Samba-Guide/kerberos.html I read that as a bit more then an RPC mechanism. I read that as saying, in order to be an AD DC,

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-16 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jan 16, 2006, at 18:24, Ben Scott wrote: I read that as saying, in order to be an AD DC, Samba would have to have all the functionality it has now, plus all the functionality of an LDAP server, plus all the functionality of a Kerberos server. We have all those parts. It's unix. We link

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-14 Thread Tom Buskey
Are there any good guides to this?I have an environment with several (6) Solaris 10 boxes w/ NIS and 2 Win XP Pro PCs. I have DNS only because the PCs don't do NIS for name resolution.Right now, I have Samba for home directories, but I want to do roaming profiles, etc so nothing is on the PC

Samba PDC/BDC

2006-01-12 Thread klussier
Hi All, I am in the process of replacing a Windows AD Domain controller with Samba and LDAP. I have another office elsewhere in the world that is connected via an IPSEC VPN. I want to create a secondary Samba/LDAP server in that office so that they can authenticate against a local server

Samba PDC

2005-12-15 Thread klussier
Hi All, This is a simple one I am replacing a Windows AD Domain controller with a Samba PDC and LDAP. I have Samba and LDAP set up using a different windows domain name so that I can test things out. However, I want to pre-poulate the Samba PDC with machine accounts, users, etc. while

Re: Samba PDC

2005-12-15 Thread Neil Schelly
one I am replacing a Windows AD Domain controller with a Samba PDC and LDAP. I have Samba and LDAP set up using a different windows domain name so that I can test things out. However, I want to pre-poulate the Samba PDC with machine accounts, users, etc. while the Windows AD PDC is running

Re: Samba PDC

2005-12-15 Thread klussier
Domain controller with a Samba PDC and LDAP. I have Samba and LDAP set up using a different windows domain name so that I can test things out. However, I want to pre-poulate the Samba PDC with machine accounts, users, etc. while the Windows AD PDC is running. When I am ready to make