> At the moment i don't have much pratical experience with Samba. I dont
> really understand the function of SPNEGO.
> I know that SAMBA can be configured with LDAP as backend. On the ESOE
> website i saw the graphical picture with LDAP as a possible solution
> beside the Windows Login service (that is i think the Active Directory
> integration you mean).

> So the trick lays in the LDAP session? If that LDAP connection to ESOE
> in the picture means that the LDAP session can be integrated in ESOE
> it would be great. But again i don't fully understand how things
> work.
> Maybe you can tell how to do this? I want to take effort in realising
> this SAMBA-ESOE connection.

> Greets.

> Martijn van der Plaat

> On 1 jun, 08:13, Bradley Beddoes <bedd...@intient.com> wrote:

> > Hi,

> > We already have an authentication mechanism in place which allows ESOE
> > to integrate with a domain controller setup provided by Windows servers
> > which we've documented here:http://esoeproject.org/confluence/display/eu/ESOE+to+Active+Directory...

> > Essentially this allows a user to login to their workstation of a
> > morning and automatically be provided access to ESOE services we call
> > this "true single sign on" and the clients we have who've deployed it
> > really love it. In the back end there is a bunch of SPNEGO ticket
> > validation going on.

> > Does the Samba PDC provide the SPNEGO type functionality? If so it may
> > not be much effort to test an ESOE setup against a Samba PDC and
> > validate this works.

> > I hope I've interpreted your query below correctly, please correct me if
> > I've totally misread your requirements :).

> > regards,
> > Bradley
> > --
> > Bradley Beddoes
> > Lead Software Architect
> > Intient Pty Ltd

> > Join me on LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/in/beddoes

> > Martijn van der Plaat wrote:

> > > Hi all,

> > > I was wondering if it is possible when SAMBA is configured with LDAP
> > > as authentication backend and ESOE is configured with LDAP as
> > > authentication source the SAMBA session is available in ESOE.
> > > This connection is great because when as user logs in to the PDC the
> > > user is also connected to the applications that are connected to ESOE
> > > like blackboard, Google Apps, or OpenID or some other application.

> > > Greets Martijn.