I wrote a this how-to to authenticate with a MS
windows NT4 PDC. I don't try it in a Win2K environment. Maybe it could help you
to have an operational pam_winbind.
Subject: Re: LDAP to authnticate from Windows 2K Server:
Trouble !
> Hi Paul, > >
Can't I use the PAM authentication modules for the same. See basically >
what I am doing is getting the users authenticated from LDAP, what I >
need to do is get them authenticated from WinNT (ADS). > > I was
told there was a authentication module called pam_windbind.so > which does
the job. I just am not able to get this fixed (though I have > it and it
is installed as a .so in my system. But I could not find > anything which
did the authentication as I want to do. > > Currently I use
pam_ldap.so for the authentication(which works > perfectly) Did you try
this module out ? > > Vishal K > > Paul Reilly
wrote: > > Hi Vishal, > > > > If you don't want to
use windows at all, you can setup a server > > with Samba using LDAP as
the backend. This allows you to replace > > a PDC and have unix/windows
logins both to the same OpenLDAP > > database. See the HOWTO
at: > > > > http://samba.idealx.org/ > > >
> Also there is a very good book on OpenLDAP which has just been > >
published by O'Reilly. See > > > > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ldapsa/ >
> > > This covers (about 4 pages) howto set up LDAP/Samba for
windows > > authentication. > > > > If you *must*
use ADS, or keep a Windows PDC, then I have some > > patches for
OpenLDAP that will allow you to store all your attributes > >
uid,gid,homedirectory etc in OpenLDAP, but just passthru the password >
> authentication to a windows PDC. It's a patch for OpenLDAP 2.1.6 >
> > > Paul > > > > > > >
> > -- > - > >