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-!How to get [Samba] 3 working nicely with a [LDAP] backend.
+!
!How to get [Samba] 3 working nicely with a [LDAP] backend.
Samba 3 allows samba accounts to not have corresponding unix accounts. This is the first time a Samba has allowed this. However, I've not set it up so I won't go into that.
-So this will - at first anyway
- discuss setting up Samba 3 + LDAP in an environment where you already have LDAP handling your unix accounts. See [LDAPNotes] for information on that.
+So this will - discuss setting up Samba 3 + LDAP in an environment where you already have LDAP handling your unix accounts. See [LDAPNotes] for information on that.
-[Debian] users: Samba.org has [Woody] packages for Samba 3; you can get it out of testing/unstable otherwise.
+! LDAP Schema
-The Samba 3 packages have
a set of smbldap-tools - you really should set these up
.
+Get the samba.schema file from your samba distribution, and put this in /etc/ldap/schema, or wherever your distribution puts the LDAP schema files. Edit /etc/ldap/slapd.conf and add in
a schema line pointing at this file
.
-Now go
and read the excellent [LDAP-SMB-2
.2/HEAD HOWTO|http://www
.unav
.es
/cti
/ldap-smb
/ldap-smb-2_2-howto.html]
.
+Note: The debian package seems to have a samba.schema file which is old
and out of date, and a samba
.schema
.gz file which is actually the correct one
. ungzip this and put it in
/etc
/ldap/schema
.
+You'll also want to check that you have the newest schema every time you upgrade samba. The schema can change quite a bit, and some features won't work if you don't have the right schema installed.
-As
I don
't have much time atm
, I'll leave
it here. I know
this page contains nearly 0 content
, but I
'll pad
it out when I get more
time.
+! smb.conf modifications
+
+There are a few ldap-specific smb.conf options you can set.
I'd recommend reading the smb.conf manpage for the details on the options. As a quick start
, here are the options
I have set:
+
+<verbatim>
+ ldap suffix=dc=your,dc=domain,dc=com
+ ldap user suffix=ou=SMBUsers
+ ldap machine suffix=ou=SMBMachines
+ ldap admin dn="cn=admin,ou=People,dc=your,dc=domain,dc=com"
+ ldap ssl = no
+
+ ldap passwd sync = yes
+</verbatim>
+
+The user and machine suffixes are entirely up to you. Just make sure you remember this, and update any other Samba / LDAP scripts you might have to use these suffixes too (such as the idealx scripts mentioned below)
+
+If you change the ldap admin dn (or set
it for the first time) you need to run smbpasswd and provide it with the ldap bind password:
+
+<verbatim>
+smbpasswd -w LDAPBINDPW
+</verbatim>
+
+The 'ldap passwd sync' parameter
here is fairly important
. Assuming your accounts are all stored in LDAP,
this will let you easily change passwords via the windows change passwords mechanism (which is actually via samba). More on this later.
+
+
+! LDAP Password Sync
+
+The default setting for this is 'no'
, which means
'Update the NT and LM passwords in LDAP, and update the last set time'. This *will* cause a lot of grief if you are trying to use another mechanism to set the password, such as a custom script. It can also be set to 'only' which means
it will only update the LDAP password (which is the userPassword field, ie the password that unix services will use via pam_ldap). Setting it to 'yes' means it will attempt to update all three passwords and update the last set
time. This is almost definitely what you want.
+
+!IdealX Samba Administration Scripts
+
+The smbldap-tools available at http://samba.idealx.org/ are, in my opinion, essential for running an LDAP-aware Samba server.
+
+The smbldap-populate script will add in the "basic" builtin users and groups you need for decent windows interop.
+
+The other scripts can be specified in smb.conf for things like adding users, adding machines (essential for joining a Windows client to a Samba domain run from LDAP), and so on.
+
+There is a migrate script as well, which will take an existing smbpasswd file and move the accounts into LDAP for you
.
----
+[Debian] users: Samba.org has [Woody] packages for Samba 3; you can get it out of testing/unstable otherwise.
-Samba 3 has been released now
. It has much better ActiveDirectory support,
and also boasts a completely rewritten ldap schema, just to annoy those early adopters who played with
the alpha series
. They *do* provide a script to convert the two however
:)
+The
Samba 3 packages have a set of smbldap-tools - you really should set these up
.
+
+Now go
and read
the excellent [LDAP-SMB-2
.2/HEAD HOWTO|http
://www.unav.es/cti/ldap-smb/ldap-smb-2_2-howto.html].
------
-Just stumbled upon this link:
http://homex.subnet.at/~max/ldap/ for
Samba and LDAP. http://samba.idealx.org/ has
a good howto and some smbldap-tools scripts for user administration.
+There is a great howto for Samba 2.2.x and LDAP under Debian Woody at
http://homex.subnet.at/~max/ldap/. Much of the content will migrate to other systems or to
Samba 3 as well, so it's worth
a read
http://www.idealx.org/prj/samba/smbldap-howto.en.html
