Samba 4 as Active Directory with RHEV

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Hi guys,

 

Did anyone already tried to hook up Samba 4 Active Directory to RHEV (as a replacement for Microsoft Active Directory or IPA)?

I didn't find time to test it yet.

 

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MR Pro 719 points
14 January 2013 4:32 PM

Nope dear,

But I have completed with Samba 3. I also wanted to know is there any one. Need some noise please.

rgds,

Shyfur

james.radtke@siriusxm.com's picture Guru 6863 points
14 January 2013 4:44 PM

Can you folks shed some light on the process you used to configure with Samba? 

 

The documentation indicates IdM/IPA, AD and RHDS as the options - specifically for the rhevm-manage-domains command.

Did you simply configure an AD domain using Samba and then use the AD procedure?

I have no interest in doing this myself, but I am extremely curious how difficult it was ;-)

MR Pro 719 points
14 January 2013 5:32 PM

Dear James,

I used two methods for domain. One using only Samba, another one is SMBLDAP.

See you can configure RHDS, It will give you a AD flavour . But with Samba or SMBLDAP its kind of complex. Customer want a simple solution like AD. I will say it is not complex, I configured Samba for user authentication not only for windows any unix mechine will use same credentials for authentication.

 

br//

Shyfur

VP Expert 823 points
23 January 2013 10:45 AM

I managed to hook up Samba 4 (as an Active Directory) to the RHEV Manager. It was just like adding aan MS Active Directory. Nothing special (!!)

I did not heavlily test this, but:

- this worked without any error:

rhevm-manage-domains -action=add -domain=demo.local -user=rhevm -provider=ActiveDirectory -interactive

- I can select the demo.local domain on the (portal) logon page.

- I can search for users in the demo.local domain within th RHEV Manager Webadmin.

- I can login and open a spice session to a VDI.

 

For this testing I used the Samba 4 appliance from SerNet (http://www.enterprisesamba.org/samba4ad/samba-4-appliance/)