Squid + NTLM authentication failing in a Windows 2008 Domain Environment

August 17, 2010 | Categories: Linux, Technical | Tags: ntlm authentication, samba, squid, winbind 1 Comment ↓

Even the latest versions of Samba via yum updates has troubles talking to Windows 2008 Domain Controllers. A partial solution was found here. Upon an upgrade to the AD environment, winbind starts throwing errors like the one below: Aug 16 16:20:38 ourhost winbindd[2459]: rpc_api_pipe: Remote machine OURDOMAINCONTROLLER.ourdomain.com pipe \NETLOGON fnum 0x800areturned critical error. Error was

AIX Integration in to Active Directory

September 25, 2008 | Categories: Technical | Tags: active directory, ad, aix, samba, ssh, unix, winbind 2 Comments ↓

Integrating an AIX system in to Active Directory is not entirely straight forward. Integration in to an Active Directory domain for user authentication can be done utilizing the following steps (similar to that found in http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/AIX/README): Download and install the krb5.client.rte package for AIX. Download the pre-built AIX 5.2 (compatible with AIX 5.3) binaries from