FC5 joining Domain Controller (win2003)

At work we have got Active Directory win2003 , and the OSs here are windows 2003 and windows XP.

From my winodws box, I can access the domain as normal user, by suing (username:zillah, password :niceforum), and also I can access the PC as stand alone workstation, by using (username: administrator, password: junk)

At work how can I configure my laptop (FC5) to join the domain ? What should I take in the consideration to achieve this ?

When I googled I found many URLs, what i am looking is to see some tutorial (steps- by-steps either : Figures, or commands line) to follow the steps to make sure, that I am doing the right things.

Note: one issue is to use samba

First, we need the external IP address of that domain.

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OK, forget that. Since you posted your passwords, I thought you might post the IP too.

Anyway, from what I can see, you still have to authenticate using kerberos even if you use samba. Also, it appears that you would be using smbclient -k
to connect to the domain.

http://www1.umn.edu/umnad/guides/basic_ ... linux.html

here's a couple of how to's.. http://www.planetmy.com/blog/?p=248 this one says its for FC6 but it should be the same process/setup with FC5
http://computerbits.wordpress.com/tag/fedora-core-5/ (search for active directory and it'll bring you to the right spot on the page, its about 3/4 the way down)
those two are targeted at Fedora, heres a more general "linux" how to http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-do-i- ... ystem.html

and i dont think those are the ops actual passwords, lol the first seems as though they're being somewhat comedic.

Comedic? One time I was cracking some passwords and there was a user named frog and his password was leap. Now, that's comedy.

I do not think, you believed those are the real passwords

yea i didn't think those were the real passwords while i was first reading the post. now the leap frog thing is kind of funny but i can see that. my moms passwords are usually something like peanut. lol but i usually assume someone using linux has better passwords than that, considering they're probably not an "average" user.

I tried to start the process of samba installation from scratch, but i could not get it done! What I have done is this :

1- [root@localhost ~]# man samba
No manual entry for samba

2- [root@localhost log]# smbd -V
bash: smbd: command not found

3- [root@localhost ~]# ls -Rl | grep samba*

4- [root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa | grep samba*
samba-client-3.0.21b-2
samba-common-3.0.21b-2

5- [root@localhost ~]# rpm -i samba-client-3.0.21b-2
error: open of samba-client-3.0.21b-2 failed: No such file or directory

6- [root@localhost ~]# rpm -i samba-common-3.0.21b-2
error: open of samba-common-3.0.21b-2 failed: No such file or directory

7- [root@localhost ~]# apt -get install samba swat
bash: apt: command not found


8- I tried to use: less /var/log/packages/samba*,,,,,,,,,,,return nothing


10- [root@localhost ~]# cd /var/log
anaconda.log btmp gdm maillog scrollkeeper.log wtmp
anaconda.syslog cron httpd messages secure Xorg.0.log
anaconda.xlog cups lastlog ppp spooler Xorg.0.log.old
boot.log dmesg mail samba vbox yum.log

11- [root@localhost log]# cd samba
[root@localhost samba]# ls -al
total 16
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 13 2006 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Jan 20 13:51 ..


12- I could not find any thing
Desktop --> System Settings --> Server Settings --> Samba


Any comment where is my mistake ?

Regards

When you attempt to open samba with the rpm command, make sure that you're in that directory where the pkg is. If it's not on the HD at all, you have to download it first.

What would the proper location where we can find samba ? as you can see I have tried
[root@localhost log]# cd samba
[root@localhost samba]# ls -al
total 16
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 13 2006 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Jan 20 13:51 ..

locate samba

it may complain your database is out of date, in which case you'd run updatedb with root privileges.


when you tried using apt to install samba, the proper command is not apt -get , it's apt-get . but if you dont have apt installed it wont do anything anyways.

[root@localhost ~]# locate samba
/etc/samba
/etc/samba/lmhosts
/etc/samba/smb.conf
/selinux/booleans/samba_enable_home_dirs
/selinux/booleans/use_samba_home_dirs
/usr/lib/samba
/usr/lib/samba/auth
/usr/lib/samba/charset
/usr/lib/samba/idmap
/usr/lib/samba/libmsrpc.so
/usr/lib/samba/lowcase.dat
/usr/lib/samba/upcase.dat
/usr/lib/samba/valid.dat
/usr/lib/samba/auth/script.so
/usr/lib/samba/charset/CP437.so
/usr/lib/samba/charset/CP850.so
/usr/lib/samba/idmap/ad.so
/usr/lib/samba/idmap/rid.so
/usr/share/samba
/usr/share/doc/authconfig-5.2.2/README.samba3
/usr/share/doc/nss_ldap-249/pam.d/samba
/usr/share/doc/selinux-policy-2.2.23/html/services_samba.html
/usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/16x16/apps/samba.png
/usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/16x16/apps/system-config-samba.png
/usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/24x24/apps/samba.png
/usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/24x24/apps/system-config-samba.png
/usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/32x32/apps/samba.png
/usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/32x32/apps/system-config-samba.png
/usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/36x36/apps/samba.png
/usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/36x36/apps/system-config-samba.png
/usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/48x48/apps/samba.png
/usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/48x48/apps/system-config-samba.png
/usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logfiles/samba.conf
/usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/services/samba.conf
/usr/share/logwatch/scripts/logfiles/samba
/usr/share/logwatch/scripts/logfiles/samba/applydate
/usr/share/logwatch/scripts/logfiles/samba/removeheaders
/usr/share/logwatch/scripts/services/samba
/usr/share/man/man8/samba_selinux.8.gz
/usr/share/samba/codepages
/usr/share/selinux/devel/include/services/samba.if
/usr/share/vim/vim64/syntax/samba.vim
/var/cache/samba
/var/cache/samba/gencache.tdb
/var/cache/samba/winbindd_privileged
/var/log/samba

ok, so whats the problem? have you gone through setting up samba or just installed it?

From where should I start the installation ?