How To Set Up And Integrate An Ubuntu 10.04 LTSPv5 Server Into A Windows 2008 Active Directory Domain

Sunday, July 31, 2011

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dc.domain.internal

Windows 2008 Server running Active Directory and DNS

server.domain.internal

Windows 2003 Server hosting user home directories and file shares

thinserver.domain.internal

Ubuntu 10.04.2 server with LTSPv5

dhcp.domain.internal

CentOS 5.0 server running dhcpd

Ubuntu LTSP Installation

To install Ubuntu with LTSP, follow the instructions here.

If your server has more than 4 GB of RAM, make sure you install the Linux PAE Kernel.

sudo apt-get install linux-generic-pae linux-headers-generic-pae

Add thinserver to the Windows Domain

Before we add thinserver to the domain, we're going to have to install Samba along with some other packages.

sudo apt-get install samba smbclient winbind libpam-cracklib krb5-user

Make sure that thinserver is named correctly.

hostname

If the hostname command doesn't return thinserver.domain.internal, rename it to thinserver.domain.internal.

hostname thinserver.domain.internal

Edit the /etc/resolv.conf to use dc.domain.internal as the primary DNS server.

search domain.internalnameserver 10.0.0.10

On your domain controller create a host (A) record in your DNS for thinserver.

Verify that thinserver can resolve domain.internal:

nslookup domain.internal

The results should look something like this: