I had likewise open authenticating, configured, and working in under 10minutes. On a fresh install everything is quite smooth. I haven't noticed any issues as of yet, been running on it for 2 weeks. I just setup bookmarks for my shared folders and have them connect automatically upon login. One thing to note, I read it somewhere but set a static IP before installing likewise, seems to go smoother. Here is what I did: 1. sudo apt-get update 2. sudo apt-get install likewise-open 3. sudo domainjoin-cli join fqdn.of.your.domain Administrator 4. sudo update-rc.d likewise-open defaults 5. sudo /etc/init.d/likewise-open start 6. sudo visudo 7. %<a href="http://DOMAIN.COM">DOMAIN.COM</a>\\DNSADMINS -- add AD group to sudoers list, for admin. I used the DnsAdmins group. ALL=(ALL) ALL 8. sudo nano -w /etc/samba/lwiauthd.conf 9. add: winbind use default domain = yes (users can now login with their username, not having to put domain\username to login) <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Jason Joines <<a href="mailto:joines@okstate.edu">joines@okstate.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> What are the advantages, disadvantages, differences, etc., between using Likewise Open to authenticate Ubuntu 8.04 Samba users against active directory instead of Kerberos, Samba, and Winbind? I briefly tested using Kerberos, Samba, and Winbind on Ubuntu 7.10 quite some time ago with the instructions at <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91510" target="_blank">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91510</a> and it seemed to work just fine. Ubuntu 8.04 comes with Likewise Open to serve the same purpose. What's the difference? Jason Joines ================================= -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>