On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 1:57 AM, Lumeng Lim <[email protected]> wrote: > mind you i've only managed to setup ldap server under ubuntu for now. > > we have 2 sites to manage and I would like for users( about 250 users total) > in both sites that is connected via vpn to be able to login to samba/ldap in > HQ > > are there things to consider before going about just setting up ldap and > samba? assuming that samba is going to be used as pdc and fileserver.
First, I would suggest that you get your samba+PDC working across the two sites using samba's built in auth. Second, verify *nix desktop users can be authenticated, across the VPN, for their login sessions with LDAP. Finally, integrate LDAP auth. into Samba. HTH, -- Arun Khan
