Re: [Samba] Samba, Kerberos and LDAP Question

2008-06-25 Thread Alex
Hello again, Ideally, I would have the users authenticate with the existing log ins in LDAP/Kerberos. The users already have access to their own machines, but need a mechanism to be able to access the shared data that they already have on Linux (these are roaming laptops, profiles and network logi

Re: [Samba] Samba, Kerberos and LDAP Question

2008-06-24 Thread Ryan Bair
How will the users be authenticating? If you're going to be adding the machines to an NT domain and you want users to authenticate against that at login you will need to store all the samba account information including the nt password hash in there. So although you can still store your user info i

[Samba] Samba, Kerberos and LDAP Question

2008-06-24 Thread Alex
Hello Everyone, I have a question regarding Samba, Kerberos, and LDAP. Specifically, I would like to have users authenticate through Samba using the existing information stored in Kerberos and LDAP. According to the documents I have read, this is similar to the mechanism used by Microsoft's Active