[Samba] Linux (specially Fedora 8), issues with ldap and samba services starting up at boot time

Adam Williams awilliam at mdah.state.ms.us
Mon Feb 4 16:48:33 GMT 2008


paste your smb.conf, maybe you have a typo?

Andrew Richey wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> For some reason, when I enable smb and nmb to start at boot time... I 
> get error messages in my log.smbd.
>
> [2008/02/01 18:47:00, 1] lib/smbldap.c:another_ldap_try(1153)
>  Connection to LDAP server failed for the 1 try!
> [2008/02/01 18:47:04, 1] lib/smbldap.c:another_ldap_try(1153)
>  Connection to LDAP server failed for the 2 try!
>
> From this you'd think that either I hadn't stored the right password 
> (via smbpasswd -w), or the LDAP server is somehow unreachable.  But 
> that isn't the case.  And when I start both services manually, after 
> boot, everything works great.  Was curious if anyone else has run into 
> this problem.  Granted, I am a lot more familiar with BSD variants 
> than I am Linux... so I may be missing something obvious.
>
> -Andrew



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