As promised in my last post regarding SLES11, I chose Samba + Openldap to be the first 2 services I’m going to try for the operational and stability in SLES11. Since we all knew this is trivial job for some system admin to configure both services and make it running well on SLES10 and some Linux Distro.

Objectives:

• To have Samba file sharing and user authentication via LDAP server.

Software Requirements:

• Samba Version 3.2.7-11.6-2057-SUSE-CODE11
• Openldap2-2.4.12-7.14
• perl

Notes : All software will be installed by default during SLES11 installation. However I still have to install “perl-ldap” before I can run any “smbldap-tools” command.
Additional Software

• smbldap-tools-0.9.5-26.1

Samba+Ldap also require “smbldap-tools” for user & group operation. Unfortunately, akin to the previous one, SLES11 also doesn’t come with “smbldap-tools”. I have to download it manually from somewhere which I forgot where Read more