November 05, 2003
Samba 3 and Active Directory
Heh, not satisfied with just getting my old machines brought back from the grave since their drives died, I also upgraded their OSes. RH9 does a fine job of installing. However, it still comes with Samba version 2.
A quick trip to the download site and a few 'configure; make; make install' steps later and I've now got Samba 3 running on it. The next step was in getting it to talk to my existing Windows Active Directory domain. This was a little more involved.
Basically, it required getting the krb5-server, devel and workstation rpms loaded and doing some editing to various /etc configuration files. Mainly telling smb.conf to use ads, pam how to handle logins and kerberos where to find the domain. The SAMBA HowTo was quite helpful here.
One stumbling block, be SURE the time on your machines is consistent! Danged daylight savings kicked in while one box was turned off. It seems to have gotten itself stuck an hour off. No worries, a quick 'net time -S' and it's now in sync with the domain.
The end result, all my windows active domain user accounts can get to the linux boxes with no trouble at all.
Nice to see the linux world catching up to Windows here.
