[LDAP-interop] Distro / Setup Suggestions

[Ron Wheeler]

I am not sure how much this helps you but I am using samba as a client 
to ADS with pam under Mandriva 10.1.

Was not hard to set up and the pam works well.

I have not set up openLDAP since my box is not a PDCorBDC - just an 
innocent bystander.
I am not sure how recent the version of openLDAP that ships with 
Mandriva is but generally things hold together pretty well.

Ron

Peter Stickney wrote:

> All -
>
> I am at a < 100 person company.  Our goal is to eliminate an aging NT4 
> Domain Controller and replace it with a shiny new Linux Domain 
> Controller.  Our idea is samba with an openldap backend, to really 
> centralize our employee information.  This would be the PDC and we 
> would eventually make a BDC.
>
> We have Slackware running on a few other servers and it is our distro 
> of choice.  Ive got OpenLDAP 2.3.4 running on one of these Slackware 
> 10.1 with 2.6.12.3 kernel and samba 3.0.14.  OpenLDAP seems to be up 
> and running fine.  Using phpldapadmin to administer, after some 
> initial command line additions.  Anyway, I added some initial entries 
> and was able to hook up Thunderbird ( windows ) and Outlook 2000 to 
> the ldap server.  I considered that a victory on my end.
>
> As I said, our goal was to have samba with an openldap backend ( and 
> maybe have openldap use mysql as its backend ) be our PDC as well as 
> Employee LDAP directory.  However, with Slackware's non-support of 
> PAM, I am finding it increasingly difficult to realize this goal. 
>
> Where I would like to stick to Slack because it is what we run on our 
> other linux servers, I am willing to accept that it might not be the 
> right distro for the job.  Was wondering if anyone had any insight to 
> getting all this to work on Slack, or if not, what the best distro for 
> the job might be.
>
> Thanks for the advice and have a good weekend.
>
> -peter
>
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