There was an article back in 2004 in SysAdmin magazine by Brett Lymn about
"Wedding Samba to an Active Directory Domain" on Solaris. It involved MIT
Kerberos and OpenLDAP. I followed it and it worked. However, since that time
circumstances at work have changed and I want to use "stock" distribution
packages as much as possible.

I see that Samba 4 will have AD built in, but it is not ready for
production, so I started investigating what Solaris 10 8/07 had to offer and
I got lots of contradictory statements in part because people aren't careful
about making clear what release of Sol10 they are talking about. I am seeing
some statements that the Samba 3.0.25c that comes with Sol10 8/07 has been
compiled with AD support (Kerberos and LDAP) but since most of those are Sun
sites or affiliated with Sun I am just a little distrustful.

So, my question is: will the Samba that comes with Sol10 8/7 work "out of
the box" with 2003 AD domains or do I need the whole LDAP/Kerberos/Samba
download/compile bit still?

P.S.: I will be running Samba only in global zones.

Thanks in advance for any clarification anyone can offer. I am on vacation
all this week and have strict orders not to log into work but I can claim
posting to a group is "not work".

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Douglas Caviness
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