Active Directory using Samba/Open LDAP for user accounts

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Posted by Jon Rhoades on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Jon Rhoades
Published on 2010-03-22T09:55:57Z Indexed on 2010/03/22 10:01 UTC
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I know this is the wrong way round... but

Is it possible to use AD in front of Samba for our PC clients, so that the user accounts are in Samba/Open LDAP.

Managing our fleet of Windows PC's is becoming more and more difficult with just Samba v3 - until Samba v4 comes along, it would be great if we could leverage Active Directory, but have the accounts stored in Samba/Open LDAP.

Windows PC's are a minority in our organisation & Samaba/Open LDAP are used for just about every service (Zimbra/RADIUS/Intranet/SAN/Printing/...) so it will have to remain the definitive account source. Anyway, it probably can't be done, but I thought I would ask for ideas anyway.

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