Fwd: [Samba] Mysterious new problem: nss_ldap: could not soft reconnect to LDAP server

[John Drescher]

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From: John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Mysterious new problem: nss_ldap: could not soft
reconnect to LDAP server
To: Wes Modes <wmodes at ucsc.edu>


On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Wes Modes <wmodes at ucsc.edu> wrote:
> Suddenly as of this morning, none of my users can authenticate to samba
> because nss_ldap is producing cryptic errors.  Nothing has changed on either
> the LDAP server or the Samba server.  Looks like this in /var/log/messages:
>
> Aug 11 11:19:29 edgar smbd[8394]: nss_ldap: could not soft reconnect to LDAP
> server - Server is unavailable
>

Have you made sure your ldap servers are working?


# slapcat

# getent group
# getent passwd

John



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John M. Drescher