Samba as domain controller
 

Does anyone know of a howto that describes how to install Samba as a domain controller?

Alex

yes, i am looking for this as well. please could one of the mod's reply to this, i need to get this running and im haveing a little trouble. Debian based with samba 3 - 2.4 kernel..

thanx in advanced

:D :o :)

RE: Samba
 

Not sure if this is what you are looking for however it is worth a look.
http://www.aboutdebian.com/lan.htm

i hope you already figured out how to put samba as a PDC ,

i have found that few weeks ago when i was wondering the same

http://www.samba.netfirms.com/PDC.htm


i'm sure it will help people that asking the same question to themself :)

What about a howto on the installation of a web front end for managing a SAMBA PDC
such as Idealx Management Console (Samba Console) I think that would be a challenge coz i've been tryin to install that for months now...

I am using samba 3 as pdc for 2 years now. It was a little bit tricky the first time but in the end it was just a game.

Till has just written such a tutorial: http://www.howtoforge.com/samba_setup_ubuntu_5.10 :) :)

The tutorial on howtoforge.com does not appear to be complete though. Don't you have to add accounts for the windows pc's also.

The Howto is complete. If you join the domain with a windows PC, the machine account is created automatically by the add machine script defined in the samba.conf.

I copied this from the howto

# Useradd scripts
add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -m %u
delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel -r %u
add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd %g
delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel %g
add user to group script = /usr/sbin/usernod -G %g %u
add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false/ -d /var/lib/nobody %u
idmap uid = 15000-20000
idmap gid = 15000-20000

Is the bold line correct? I don't have a command "/usr/sbin/usernod".