Re: [Beowulf] Re: Active directory with Linux

2008-11-12 Thread Prentice Bisbal
Dave Love wrote: > Prentice Bisbal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I looked at implementing Fedora Directory Server a few months ago to >> provide LDAP services to our Linux systems and synchronize passwords >> with our AD servers. > > For authentication, you should use an authentication proto

Re: [Beowulf] Re: Active directory with Linux

2008-11-11 Thread Chris Samuel
- "Dave Love" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Well we were told that AD doesn't permit anonymous access. > > http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/appnote/15120.html>, for > example, has instructions for 2000 and 2003 servers. Thanks! That's useful

[Beowulf] Re: Active directory with Linux

2008-11-11 Thread Dave Love
Prentice Bisbal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I looked at implementing Fedora Directory Server a few months ago to > provide LDAP services to our Linux systems and synchronize passwords > with our AD servers. For authentication, you should use an authentication protocol, i.e. Kerberos -- what AD

[Beowulf] Re: Active directory with Linux

2008-11-11 Thread Dave Love
Chris Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well we were told that AD doesn't permit anonymous access. http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/appnote/15120.html>, for example, has instructions for 2000 and 2003 servers. > Bear in mind we're Linux geeks here, not Windows geeks.. ;-) I hope you don't

[Beowulf] Re: Active directory with Linux

2008-10-27 Thread Chris Samuel
- "Dave Love" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't understand that. If you need LDAP data, as opposed to just > Kerberos authentication, and you're not allowed anonymous access to > it, Well we were told that AD doesn't permit anonymous access. Bear in mind we're Linux geeks here, not Windo

Re: [Beowulf] Re: Active directory with Linux

2008-10-25 Thread Jon Aquilina
sry for repost didnt hit reply to all my question though is what is the best way in the linux world to get windows machines to join a linux domain which is being hosted by bind On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Dave Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Prentice Bisbal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >

[Beowulf] Re: Active directory with Linux

2008-10-24 Thread Dave Love
Prentice Bisbal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The trust is that if you already have and AD installation and the AD > controllers have Microsoft Services for Unix (MSSFU, or just SFU) 3.5 or > later, you have everything you need to use your AD servers as Kerberos > and LDAP masters for your Linux c

[Beowulf] Re: Active directory with Linux

2008-10-24 Thread Dave Love
"John Hearns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have to confess my Google skills have failed me. > If I'm not wrong, there was a recent discussion in these parts re. using > Active Directory > with Linux. [I assume that means GNU/Linux.] You probably want to be more specific about the value of `us

[Beowulf] Re: Active directory with Linux

2008-10-24 Thread Dave Love
Chris Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We were trying to do that for one of our members, but > were told by the AD admins that we could only use the > users credentials to bind to the AD server for queries > as they were using lockouts on failed password attempts > and so would not provide a "