Linux and AD

Below are the proceedures I used to attach a Suse 9.0 Linux Box to a Windows 2000 Active Directory using the Windows authentication with windows users and groups.

1. Install Samba 3.0.2. I installed the entire Samba package. I'm unsure if all is required but just to be on the safe side I did. www.samba.org.

2. Copy in the requried portions of /etc/samab/smb.conf.

3. Copy in the required portions of the /etc/krb5.conf.

4. Copy in the required portions of the /etc/nsswitch.conf

5. Restart SMB and Winbind

6. Run net ads join -U will. It should ask for your password and then create the machine account and set the password.

7. As root run 'kinit will@AGHEALTH123.COM. This should ask for a password and then return to a prompt with no errors. If you incurr any erros then stop at this point and troubleshoot.

8. Run wbinfo -u to verify you receive all the AD users.

9. Run wbinfo -g to verify you receive all the AD groups.

10. Run getent passwd.

11. Run getent group.

12. If you want the user to have a home directory you need to create the home dir, such as /home/AGHEALTH123/will, and give the user access.