[Samba] ou=Computers vs ou=Users

Sundaram Ramasamy sun at percipia.com
Mon Jan 5 20:25:20 GMT 2004


 I have tried samba 3.0.1pre2 on suse 8.2. I force to keep Computer and
User account in single tree People. I don't know it fixed.

eg.
User account:
uid=testuser,ou=People,dc=sfgroup,dc=com

Machine acount:
uid=sales$,ou=People,dc=sfgroup,dc=com

SR


>> Recently I've read here, that there is a problem with storing computer
>> accounts in a separate container, of LDAPSAM backend.
>> We're successfully using Samba3.0.1pre1 (with a patch for bug#64, #532
>> and #569, Win9x userlist problem)
>> with separate ous for users and computers, after configuring pam-ldap
>
> As are we. Samba = 3.0.1rc2
>
> Machine accounts in "ou=System Accounts" and user accounts in
> "ou=People"
>
>    ldap admin dn = cn=CIFS DC,o=Morrison Industries,c=US
>    ldap suffix = o=Morrison Industries,c=US
>    ldap group suffix = ou=Groups
>    ldap user suffix = ou=People
>    ldap machine suffix = ou=System Accounts
>    idmap backend = ldap:ldap://localhost/
>    ldap idmap suffix = ou=idMap,ou=CIFS,ou=SubSystems
>    idmap uid = 40000-50000
>    idmap gid = 40000-50000
>
> Works great.
>
> Printer support seems REALLY slow, but I don't think it has anything to
> do with the SAM.
>
> We are waiting for Samba 3.0.2 to move up.
>
>
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the
> instructions:  http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
>



More information about the samba mailing list