Setting Up CIFS Server (Samba) In an LDAP Environment

Setting Up CIFS Server (Samba) in an LDAP Environment

To customize the names for your CIFS Server groups:

Replace the following texts with the names YOU are using in your LDAP directory:

_USERS_

_GROUPS_

_COMPUTERS_

(For instance, _USERS_ = People,

_GROUPS_= Group,

_COMPUTERS_= Computers

To customize for your posix and CIFS Server variables (these variables are used when

creating a new CIFS Server user for defaults):

$_userLoginShell = q( _USERLOGINSHELL_) (for instance /usr/bin/sh)

$_userHomePrefix= q(_USERHOMEPREFIX_) (for instance /home/)

$_userHomeDrive = q(_HOMEDRIVE_:) (for instance U:)

$_userProfile = q(\\\\_PDCNAME_\\profiles\\) (for instance \\\\rkm-nt\\profiles\\)

$_userSmbHome = q(\\\\_PDCNAME_\\homes) (for instance \\\\rkm-nt\\homes\\)

Sourcing select parameters from smb.conf instead of

smbldap_conf.pm

NOTE: you can use the ‘-S’ parameter in the scripts to force the scripts to pull

$slaveLDAP

$masterLDAP

$suffix

$binddn

configuration information from the smb.conf file instead of the smbldap_conf.pm file.

This is recommended, since putting your bindpasswd into the smbldap_conf.pm file is

NOT secure; each of the smbldap-tools scripts have a command line option ‘-w’ that

will allow you to pass the password via the commandline, rather than having it

hardcoded in the .pm file. This is the recommended way of supplying your Directory

Manager password.

Part Five: Installing your CIFS Server users in

the directory

Storing your CIFS Server LDAP credentials