[Samba] Samba cannot contact LDAP server

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Disabling SELinux did the trick!!  Thank you so much!!


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> On 7/26/05, Marcin Giedz <marcin.giedz at eulerhermes.pl> wrote:
>> Dnia wtorek, 26 lipca 2005 04:53, Alex Ward napisa³:
>>
>> Hello Alex,
>>
>> Please tell something more about your LDAP configuration - is it working
>> at
>> all??? Any logs, configuration, linux distro etc..... Your samba
>> configuration for LDAP seems to be OK ;) so please add some additional
>> LDAP
>> information.
>>
>> Marcin
>>
>> > I'm setting up a PDC using samba 3.0.14a-2 on fedora 4 with Openldap
>> > 2.2.23 to authenticate.  Authentication via ldap through the various
>> > linux service is working (login, ssh, etc.) via nss.  Thus I know that
>> > slapd is running and working properly.  I used smbldap-tools to
>> populate
>> > and add test users/groups to the directory, and they worked just fine.
>> > But samba, despite being configured correctly, as far as I can tell,
>> > cannot even contact LDAP.  slapd is running on the loopback interface
>> > and logging everything including packets sent.  I know from the
>> openldap
>> > logs that the samba server NEVER contacts the ldap server despite
>> having
>> > the correct URI (I can see it in the smbd.log file)
>
> To start testing, turn off SELinux in FC4, as it may be blocking the
> communication between Samba and LDAP. Either you do "setenforce 0", or
> you edit /etc/sysconfig/selinux, set SELLinux "disabled" and reboot.
>
> It is very helpful also to install "phpldapadmin", a web interface for
> LDAP. It is very easy to install and I find it extremely helpful. In
> this way you can easily verify if LDAP is running OK and what is going
> on with your accounts.
>
> Carlos
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