[Fedora-directory-users] Windows Authentication

[Jared B. Griffith]

Thanks, I will look into it. 
Has anyone done the Pass sync thing for active directory and fedora ds? 



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Morris" <patrick.morris at hp.com> 
To: "Jared B. Griffith" <jared.griffith at farheap.com>, "General discussion list for the Fedora Directory server project." <fedora-directory-users at redhat.com> 
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 5:20:25 PM (GMT-0800) America/Los_Angeles 
Subject: Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Windows Authentication 


On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Jared B. Griffith wrote: 

> Has anyone gotten windows computers to successfully authenticate against Fedora Directory Server? 
> If so is there a walk through online somewhere? 
> Or is it just ridiculously easy to do? 
> Or is it like having a windows computer join an active directory domain? 

Windows machines will not authenticate directly with an LDAP server. 
You'd need to do something like set up Samba using LDAP as a back end. 

There are plenty of how-to's out there. Googling "samba ldap domain 
controller" should be enough to get you started. 


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