Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4020 mails)

[Tarjei Huse <tarjei+a_lists.suse@xxxxx>]

lør, 02,.10.2004 kl. 15.34 +0200, skrev Jonas Helgi Palsson:
> On Saturday 02 October 2004 15:01, Tarjei Huse wrote:
> 
> > However, it seems to me that yast does not offer a way to admin users so
> > that when you add a local user a user will be created in samba as well.
> > Is this true? If not, how can I configure Yast so that I may admin my
> > users there and get them working in a windowscontext as well?
> 
> I have not looked at it in great detail(*), but if you tell yast to use ldap 
> for usermanagement, you will get "samba attributes" option.
> 
Thanks for your input. I gave up this option. I'm actually quite amaized
that SuSE doesn't provide a more polished package to providing a simple
SME setup for a simple server.

I wish they could fix this :-(

Anyhow. For those who wants to get to a working solution in a simple
network with a SuSE / Linux box acting as a dns, dhcp and fileserver,
here's how:

1) Install SuSE (or some other darn simple Dist).
2) Remove bind and install dnsmasq (google dnsmasq for link). It's
provided with an rpm. Dnsmasq is a simple caching dnsserver + dhcpserver
that gives you reverse mapping of dhcpips and serves up local hostnames
from /etc/hosts. This gives you a propper dns/dhcp solution faster than
you can say whats-a-ttl.

3) Install samba etc. Then use webmin's usermodule for adding and
removing users. Webmin may be configured to add and modify a user in
both /etc/passwd and smbpasswd. 

The sad ting is that this cannot just be setup via yast :/

But, (this cannot be said enough times) : 
DNSMASQ will save you hours instead of using bind+dhcpd+ tsig-keys etc.

Tarjei
> (*) I tried it on SLES 9, to use yast to manage my ldap, samba, dns and mail. 
> It b0rkd the whole system :) 
> Now there are been bugfixes to yast but I do not dare to try it again :)
> 
> regards
> Jonas
> 
> -- 
> Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of 
> tapes hurtling down the highway.
> -Andrew S. Tanenbaum. Computer Networks.

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