## 1 Introduction

- Software requirements
- Updates of this document
- Availability of this document

Smbldap-tools is a set of scripts designed to help integrate Samba and a LDAP directory. They target both users and administrators of Linux systems.
Users can change their password in a way similar to the standard ``passwd'' command.
Administrators can perform user and group management command line actions and synchronise Samba account management consistently.
This document presents:

- a detailled view of the smbldap-tools scripts
- a step by step explanation of how to set up a Samba3 domain controller

### 1.1 Software requirements

The smbldap-tools have been developped and tested with the following configuration :

- Linux RedHat 9 (be should work on any Linux distribution)
- Samba release 3.0.2pre1,
- OpenLDAP release 2.1.22
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Windows XP Workstations and Servers,

This guide applies to smbldap-tools Release: 0.8.7 .

### 1.2 Updates of this document

The most up to date release of this document may be found on the smbldap-tools project page available at `http://samba.IDEALX.org/`.
If you find any bugs in this document, or if you want this document to integrate some additional infos, please drop us a mail with your bug report and/or change request at samba@IDEALX.org.

### 1.3 Availability of this document

This document is the property of IDEALX (`http://www.IDEALX.com/`).
Permission is granted to distribute this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (See `http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html`).