[OpenIndiana-discuss] Questions about AD integration

[Gordon Ross]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
<roy at karlsbakk.net> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Setting up a new server for a remote office now, I'll be integrating it all into AD. After following a few howtos, it seems to work well. However, I still have a few issues:
>
>  - The home directory property doesn't seem to be set, even if I set "Local Path" under "Home folder" in the "Profile" tab in AD. NIS extensions are installed, so the homedir is set there, but neither of them show up in getent.

I think that's determined on the AD server.  Not sure why your client
would get an empty homedir...

>  - I want to allow users to login to servers on S10, Linux and OI using their AD accounts, but this doesn't seem to work. I can't find any AD PAM module, and I didn't have much luck with SMB. The docs said passwd should create compatible passwords after a change, but passwd didn't let me do much:

The integration is not that complete on *solaris.
With an AD account, you can connect via the SMB service, but not login locally.