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Creating LDAP Clients

There are two main steps to making any Linux box into an LDAP client:

1. Mount /home via NFS
   1. Make sure your home directories are exported from your fileserver (which may be your Samba/LDAP server); see /etc/exports on that server and you should have something like the following:

      • /home        192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0(rw,sync)

      • "192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0" represents the network which you want to allow to mount /home.
   2. Add a line to /etc/fstab on your LDAP client to mount /home remotely. It should look something like this:

      • fileserver-ip-addr:/home        /home        nfs        defaults        0        0

      • Make sure the portmap service is installed and running (on [Ed]Ubuntu, you must also install nfs-common), and execute the following command:

      • $ mount -a

2. Run $ ./smbldap ldapclient and answer the questions. You'll need to reboot (or 'init 1' if you know how to do that) before you can authenticate to the LDAP server.