Gentoo Directory Services

KDawg44 · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 7:35 pm Post subject: Gentoo Directory Services

Hi,

I am relatively new to Gentoo and really Linux in general. I have a working knowledge of linux and have successfully installed gentoo on a workstation. I am now building a Gentoo server that I want to act as an internal web server, a file server, print server, and have some sort of directory services. I am a Windows 2003 Administrator (I know its the dark side but it pays the bills).

What I have in my house is two Windows XP workstations (one home, one pro), a Ubuntu workstation, a gentoo workstation, my gentoo server, and another box on the way that will eventually be an external web server (and probably mail server).

Finally, to my actual question. Is there a way to have a central authentication authority on my Gentoo server, similiar to a Domain Controller in Windows? How do I use LDAP services? What kind of resources would I need for the setup (as my "server" is of workstation quality)?

Thanks so much for your help. I want to be all Linux but my wife uses her XP machine and I have my games on my other XP machine.

Thanks!
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linuxpyro · Apprentice Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 255

Basically, I think what you would need to do would be to set up LDAP on the server, and then have Samba use LDAP while acting as a primary domain controller for your XP boxes. I've never tried it, but there are some docs on the Wiki:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_LDAP_SAMBA_PDC
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_secure_OpenLDAP_network

Hope that helps...

KDawg44 · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:17 pm Post subject:

I will try that! Thank you very much!
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linuxpyro · Apprentice Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 255

No problem.

KDawg44 · Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 2:12 pm Post subject:

This actually ended up being a DNS issue. I had some DNS servers and they were not resolving any of the sites. THey were resolving yahoo.com and google.com when I tried to ping. I switched to some new DNS servers and it worked.

Thanks for all your help and support.
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