Hi after following the tutorial this is what I get " a domain controller for the domain adnt could not be contacted " What should I do?

 

 

Thanks

The tutorial is excellent.

A suggestion -- You might want to consider adding a note in the last section where smb users are added, a newbie, like me, might forget to add the user to the GROUP 'users' which ubuntu doesn't do automatically when you create new users. If you don't do this, you end up not being able to access the shared 'allusers' directory which at first is confusing.

I don't know if I was the only person that had these issues..

When trying to join the PC to the domain, I had to add it with the root login, then reboot, and login with the username I setup.

Apart from that though, a very nice tutorial and well done! Saved my ass :)

Great tutorial. There is one minor mistake that gave me some trouble.

Where it says:

The cups webinterface is now accessible with any webbrowser from my workstation:

http://192.168.0.100:631/

It should be:

http://192.168.0.100:631/admin

You may also need to "Allow From [server's IP]" under <Location /admin> in cupsd.conf.

In addition, I had to allow the same addresses under <Location /> for it to work properly.

Hey great howto... Recomended it to alot of people so far! When is the LDAP part going to be done?! I REALLY NEED IT! :)

I had set up a Samba PDC several months ago... I wish this was around then... It took me a week of evenings to finally get it working... And it really hasn't worked extremely reliably (ie I would get access denied at least once a day) until recently when I changed my PDC box from CentOS to Gentoo... No problems since then...

thanx for the gr8 howto!

my only quibble is, if its "cut-and-paste," (in other words, as easy as it gets) shouldn't there be instructions on how to configure the 2nd machine?

it just seems like there are so many howtos that say configure this, do that, edit this file... but without reasons why to do those things. it was more difficult for me because i got up to the part about changing /etc/network/interfaces, and i didn't know how many of the values to change. a little trial and error and it worked.

gentoo has great docs, they have explicit instructions, but take a time out to explain why. thats why their docs have been easier to understand, in my experience, than things for debian.

Thank you for an excellent walk-through for Ubuntu and Samba. I've been struggling with multiple linux distributions, trying to create a secure file server. Your tutorial saved me months of sleepless nights.

Thanks again,

Devan

Hi,

Let me say that this how-to is the best thing in a long time. I am installing a PDC at my school and everything is working execpt that when from a client Winxp client i press CRTL-ALT-DEL and try to change that user's password i enter the old one the new one twice and the press ok. The machine just hangs there waiting and waiting... and nothing. Is this happening to someone else??

Thanks,

José

Sugestion:

Add the "foomatic-filters-ppds" package to the cups installation line, it will install the foomatic ppds.

I had absolutely no problems setting up my domain controller as described here. This includes the main features of:

* Roaming profiles
* Central user management (set 'em up on the server and they can log in at any workstation, that is joined into the domain.

This is how joining is done - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/ServerHelp/82b8966c-a6d9-49f7-9bd5-2990a7cc38c3.mspx ) While I agree to use Ubuntu (and the under lying Debian OS. Since it is the last truely "free" distro)

I then tried the same method (using the same smb.conf) on an existing RedHat Fedora Core 4 Samba installation and after only minor tweaking (eg. re-entering user passwords into smbpasswd, because the above setup uses a different, more secure password db) I was able to get it working. Naturally one would also have to deal with any migration issues (mostly transfering files to the network) of existing users.

On a whole a very good experience getting something going, which I personally had attempted without success several times over the past years. ....And HowtoForge rocks ; - )...many great howtos. Thanks

Very usefull.. I used it for a small network and it worked perfectly..

I'd like to also say this is a great article -- easy to read and very straight forward in its language. I too look forward to the ldap piece. -NG

This was a very great article! Thanks so much. I do hope that you decide to post another using LDAP though, as I have been wanting to get this working for some time but just can't find a good enough how-to - as all of the attempts I've made failed miserably.

I'm looking for something that allows both windows and linux clients to authenticate to a central authentication server.

I'm sure many would appreciate it.

Thanks again,

Mike.