samba - Jan 2012 - Samba with LDAP Authentication

Hello All,

I want to authenticate existing LDAP users to samba shares. From what i have
been reading, it seems like there are two ways to achieve this

1. Configure samba to use plaintext passwords (encrypt passwords = no in
smb.conf) and configure clients  to send unencrypted passwords.
2. Use smbpasswd utility to add users. Using this utility the user's samba
password will be different from the LDAP password.

I don't want to use plaintext authentication so cannot use the first method
described here.  I also want the samba password to be the same as the LDAP
password and must be in sync.

Is there anyway to achieve this? Can anyone please point me in the right
direction? I would really appreciate your help.

Thanks,
Amit

On 01/10/2012 09:50 PM, Amit More wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I want to authenticate existing LDAP users to samba shares. From what i
have been reading, it seems like there are two ways to achieve this
>
> 1. Configure samba to use plaintext passwords (encrypt passwords = no in
smb.conf) and configure clients  to send unencrypted passwords.
> 2. Use smbpasswd utility to add users. Using this utility the user's
samba password will be different from the LDAP password.
>
> I don't want to use plaintext authentication so cannot use the first
method described here.  I also want the samba password to be the same as the
LDAP password and must be in sync.
>
> Is there anyway to achieve this? Can anyone please point me in the right
direction? I would really appreciate your help.
>
> Thanks,
> Amit
Hi. We have a one password solution like you describe running on 
openSUSE. There is a good howto here:
http://digiplan.eu.org/ldap-samba-howto-v4.html

It may get you started at least.

HTH
Steve