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Posts tagged Active Directory
Active Directory integration with Samba for RHEL/CentOS5.5
Sep 4th
I’ve been asked to develop an enterprise level of complex network servers that can provide many services including mail server, ftp, web server, file server, print server, backup server, roaming profiles and user’s home directory.. etc. The client demanded at least one Linux machine regardless of the service running on it. I’ve decided to run the web server (Apache) on it associated with the FTP server for managing the web pages contents, so I had to come out with a solution to join the Linux server to the Domain Controller (which is windows server 2003) as a member server.
It is true that any number of Samba servers can normally be set up in a Windows network without joining them to a domain. However, advantages of domain membership are central management, authentication and single sign-on. So once you’ve done with all the configuration and successfully joined the server to the DC you can use the same account name and password to log on to your Linux or Windows machine as well as the network administrators will be able to logon to the machine with their administrator credentials. (more…)
Creating a User Template in Active Directory
May 21st
When you are creating several users with similar account options and group membership creating those users would be a repetitive and time consuming task. However, in Active Directory you may be able to reduce some of the repetition by creating a USER TEMPLATE.
User template simply an inactive user account (disabled account) that can be copied to create users with common attributes. Copying from the User Template Account will run the same wizard for creating a new user account so you can fill in the missing fields such as username and password, as well as you can make some changes on those in common attributes fields. (more…)
