[Samba] Re: SuSE 9.3 + Samba 3 + LDAP

[Horst B. Simon]

On Aug 15, 2005 09:42 AM, Geoffrey Scott <geoffs at guestshire.com> wrote:

>Horst Simon wrote:
>>On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:55, Geoffrey Scott wrote:
>>>David Krider wrote:
>>>>* The IDEALX smbldap-useradd script example in their smb.conf file
>>>>is a little misleading. You'll need a `-a' to get it to add a
>>>>sambaSamAccount object-classed account.
>>>
>>>You need to use an "-a" when using the smbldap-tools scripts on the
>>>commandline, but there should be no such need within your smb.conf as
>>>samba takes care of samba attributes by itself.
>>>
>>>GS
>>I think this is my problem too, but using the -a option still did not
>>add sambaSamAccount. I am using smbldap tools 0.91. From previous
>>messages I found a patch for smbldap-useradd for version 0.91, after
>>I applied the patch, the sambaSAMAccount object class and information
>>was added, but still no luck. The next step is to add the computers
>>into ou=Users and not into ou=Computers as discussed in some other
>>posts.
>
>Samba and the idealx tools can handle having users in one ou and
>computers
>in another quite easily. Eg
>ou=Users,ou=split,ou=OxObjects,dc=dynohire,dc=com
>Ou=Computers,ou=split,ou=OxObjects,dc=dynohire,dc=com
>
>Then you point your nss and pam at
>ou=split,ou=OxObjects,dc=dynohire,dc=com
>as the base password etc
>
>But OpenXchange isn't that flexible. There are config files for the
>javastuff that have to be edited heavily to allow for this sort of set
>up.
>Therefore it is easier to just put computers and users in the same ou.
>
>Regards Geoff
>

I have it working with users and computers in ou=Users.
 
Regards,
Horst