With a lot of help from Google and a good howto for another Linux distro, I last night got OpenLDAP up and running on one CentOS 5.2 virtual server, and 3 other servers working as LDAP clients, one of which is now running as a Samba PDC with LDAP back-end. Added some users, set passwords, and Samba is now authenticating nicely against LDAP for file access from my Windows PC. Not using the PDC functionality yet (my kids need Fast User Switching), but so far so good.
I am using Webmin and PHPLDAPadmin to manage it all. I will post more detail over the next week or so.
have you managed to write the article
Not yet, but now that you’ve asked I’ll go through my documentation and pull it together. 🙂
hi ,
I am trying to setup Openldap with samba.. but i am failing to connect to samba.. if you have the document.. can you please share?
Done and posted! Took a while… 🙁
hi,
how to manage openldap samba in phpldap admin,please post that
Hi Simon,
Can you share this setup “OpenLDAP up on one CentOS 5.2 virtual server, and 3 other servers working as LDAP clients, one of which is now running as a Samba PDC with LDAP back-end. Added some users, set passwords, and Samba is now authenticating nicely against LDAP for file access from my Windows PC.”
I am struggling to have this setup. Can you please share the points to do that?
Soh
Hi Simon,
I am not able to find the post, please help me in finding this.
Thanks
http://blog.simonandkate.net/20091013/openldap
To be honest, I haven’t done much more with this – it still works just as well as it did when I set it up. The server is now CentOS 5.7, but apart from that it is still all the same.
And here…
http://blog.simonandkate.net/20091230/samba-openldap-on-centos