AD Authentication?

[Thomas Charron]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Kenny Lussier <klussier at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>  Does anyone know of any recent, good docs on using a Windows Active
>  Directory server to authenticate Linux desktops? I am currently
>  working in a place that has a Windows infrastructure (AD, Exchange,
>  etc.), but we need to be able to use the existing central
>  authentication for a new fleet of Linux desktops. Most of the docs
>  that I found were circa 2002, and they all required patching the AD
>  server, and installing software on the Windows side to allow different
>  schemas.

  A few months ago I was setting this up, and had a few bookmarks:

http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netos/article.php/3502441

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ActiveDirectoryWinbindHowto

  The latter was the most helpful.

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-- Thomas