[KLUG Members] Re: OpenLDAP, user authentication from Windows based client

[Jim C]

Pravin Joshi wrote:
 > Dear Jim,
...
 > My requirement is similar. I have OpenLDAP under SunOS and I wish to
 > authenticate the user from windows based client. I tried to download
 > mozilla. I couldn't do it. :(
 >
 > Could you please tell me what method did you adopt? steps please. Thanks.
 >
 > Regards
 > Pravin Joshi

It is still in the works I'm afraid. Previously I used a combination of 
pGINA and instructions from an article on mandrake-secure:

http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/ldap-auth.php

Problem there was that the plugin for pGINA is designed for samba.schema 
and the article describes setting up nis.schema.  The end result is that 
the groups are not retrieved by the plugin which basically means that 
only Guest access is possible.  Frankly I never understood why anyone 
would want to use pGINA if they were just going to use samba anyway.  I 
mean, wouldn't it be just as easy (or perhaps easier) to use the winbind 
daemon that comes with Samba instead of pGINA?

It might be OK to use samba.schema but there are no good/up-to-date 
instructions that I know of for setting up the db and I still need to 
authenticate my Linux clients.  The idea of having a different db for 
each type of client also seems wasteful and unnecessarily complex.