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RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 Encrypted Microsoft Active Directory Authentication

Jan 17th, 2011
by robin.
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So after a few hours getting Linux authenticating happily from Active Directory, I turned my attention to getting it all working with encryption.
Initially I had tried a telnet to port 636 (the LDAPS port) which failed, so it didnt look like my AD box was talking LDAPS. Somewhere to start I guess!

So after a few hours getting Linux authenticating happily from Active Directory, I turned my attention to getting it all working with encryption.

Initially I had tried a telnet to port 636 (the LDAPS port) which failed, so it didnt look like my AD box was talking LDAPS. Somewhere to start I guess!

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RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 Microsoft Active Directory Authentication

Jan 14th, 2011
by robin.
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Today I set out to get RHEL 5.x (Specifically 5.5) to authenticate from a Windows 2003 R2 Active Directory. I used plenty of web pages, none of which were 100% correct for my setup, so I thought I’d document exactly what I did here for my own future reference, if anybody else finds it useful, so much the better. To start with, thanks to the following pages, between them, they got me about 80% of the way there:

  • Scott Lowe has a useful howto here. It is version 4 currently, click around his site to ensure he hasnt updated it before you use it as a reference.
  • The second resource I used is here.

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Dumb Word error of the day

Jul 15th, 2009
by robin.
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Double clicking a Word document embedded in a Word document, whilst in Microsoft Word results in Word coming to the conclusion that Word isn’t installed. Amazingly helpful error message, thanks Microsoft.

Amusing error from Microsoft Word

Dumb error from Microsoft Word