Join to AD

[GrimR]

How do I join a linux machine to AD network?

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[Annihilannic]

I believe you can set it up as a simple LDAP client (AD can act as an LDAP server I think, possibly with some extra configuration), or there are commercial products such as Vintela or Centrify to do it. Or you can use SAMBA. I think it depends very much what exactly you want to use it for... can you elaborate?

Annihilannic.

 

[GrimR]

I just want to join it to the network, to be able to browse other workstations get mail etc, much like you would join a Windows box.

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[Annihilannic]

Then SAMBA is probably the best choice for you. You'll probably find it's installed already, and there will be plenty of documentation/HOWTOs out there to help you along.

Annihilannic.

 

[pagy]

Centrify is a good choice for this;

http://www.centrify.com/products/active-directory-integration-linux-unix.asp

Or Likewise can do it;

http://www.likewise.com/products/likewise_enterprise/how-to-join-linux-to-AD.php

Paul
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RFC 2795 - The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS)

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2795.html

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[GrimR]

Struggled with Fedora first rpm where broken fixed that then Yum would not work properly, then other errors etc etc, gave up and loaded Ubuntu.

Ran export http_proxy="

http://proxy.example.com:8080"

to get through our proxy.

Done a bunch of apt-get's. Installed likewise-open5 and joined in 10 sec.

much easier.

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[jshurst]

I just did this a few days ago myself and Likewise was really easy, I did have to manually edit the nsswitch file but after that it was cake (had to change one line to "file dns").

I then added my domain account (actually a group) to the sudoers file (I'm using Ubuntu = "sudo visudo"): %DOMAIN\\LinuxAdmins ALL=(ALL) ALL - because it doesn't pull domain account security from the domain and I really couldn't do anything that required elevated privledges.

One thing that I've noticed is that a linux client won't update the Windows DNS entries on the DNS server. Windows clients automatically update dns. I added a static Host A record to dns which isn't ideal but oh well, not that big of a deal.

Glad you got it working!

J