Thursday, May 24, 2012

Instead of Samba use Centrify

I've used samba for a long time and love it, but I ran into a product called Centrify that is so easy to setup and use for kerberos authentication against a Windows Active Directory that I don't think I'm going back to samba.

Here is a very brief explanation of how I set it up on my Linux Server.


Download Centrify Suite and the centrify samba package.

1. Uninstall your current ssh and samba.
2. Login as "root"
3. Extract the files.
4. Run "install-express.sh"
5. Answer all the questions.
6.  Reboot.
7.  Install the samba packages.


Make the following changes in /etc/centrify/centrifydc.conf file.
Change the shell from /bin/bash to /bin/ksh
Change the auto.schema.primary.gid: 100
Change the auto.schema.private.group: false

Create a group.ovr file in /etc/centrify/  Add the following line:
+domain users:users:::

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