active directory

[BadFishBrewer]

is there a way to make an active directory server using samba?
i see that you can connect to an active directory network with it
but is there a way to run it on samba?

if so, any helpful links??

thanks

[thaddaeus]

With the most recent versions of samba as of this post you cannot, you can however use roming profiles/domain logins and all that. In fact if you follow their tut for making a PDC, they flat out say that you cannot, i hope this changes soon but i don't think its a priority on their lists. I'm sure with some clever programming and scripting you could do it but it would take a lot of work.

[BadFishBrewer]

cool thanks, yea i used samba and made a PDC and BDC.
but i was just wondering if it was possible.
i really dont have a hugh need for it.

thanks

[Hayl]

yes you certainly can make active directory servers, using ldap in conjunction with samba.

dkeav has made a number of them but unfortunately he does not hang out on this board anymore.

you can try him on the unofficial jl.com irc chat room on freenode if you like.

[elderdays]

Active Directory is kind of a Microsoft only thing. You are interested in just a directory in general I think. Samba plays nicely with LDAP. There is a good howto for LDAP at tldp.org and docs for using it with samba in the samba tarball.

[Hayl]

Originally posted by elderdays
Active Directory is kind of a Microsoft only thing. You are interested in just a directory in general I think. Samba plays nicely with LDAP. There is a good howto for LDAP at tldp.org and docs for using it with samba in the samba tarball.

yes and no.

MS AD is fully implementable using plain jane ldap.

[BadFishBrewer]

cool, thanks everyone for your information