[Samba] 2.2.5 Unable to authenticate users: no ldap secret re trieved

[Adriaan.Putter at aventis.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: root [mailto:harm.kirchhoff at mx10.ttcn.ne.jp]
> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 3:43 AM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] 2.2.5 Unable to authenticate users: no ldap
> secret retrieved
>
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> Samba 2.2.5 re-compiled without choosing ldap support on
> Turbolinux WS V.8.
>

after this have you did a #make install?

> #smbpasswd -a administrator
>
> resonse:
> ldap_open_connection:connection opened
> fetch_ldap_pw:no ledap secret retrieved!
> ldap_connect_system: Failed to retrieve password for  from secret.tdb
> Failed to add entry for user administrator.
> Failed to modify password entry for user administrator.
>

it could be that smbpasswd is still the old version with ldap support

>
> Why does samba look in secret.tdb and establish an ldap
> connection, when it
> should not ??? Any suggestions ?

your secret ldap password is stored in there



hth


adriaan