Samba LDAP

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

please bear in mind that all schemas are currently unsupported, so any
decisions about putting samba-ldap-pdcs into production environments
should probably be delayed.

your call.

thx,

luke

On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Stephan Duehr wrote:

> Hi Martin,
> 
> the question is: What do you want to do with that Samba-LDAP-PDC?
> If you want real users to use that server, then I think you
> should not use TNG, because it is just heavily changing, even
> the LDAP related stuff. My advice would be to check out the cvs
> of 1999/10/15-00:00 and follow Ignacio Coupeau's fine howto:
> 
> http://www.unav.es/cti/ldap-smb-howto.html
> 
> I saw that he added instructions on how to check out that that
> special version, that proved to be quite stable and usable.
> I found problems with printing from NT with that version.
> A good approach might be to use that as PDC and a 2.0.6
> with security=server (or domain) for file and print services.
> 
> If you want to take part in TNG-research, I am not the right
> person (at present;-)
> 
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 04:39:07AM +1100, Martin Brown wrote:
> > 
> > Does anyone know who is heading the Samba with LDAP project?  I am using
> > Samba-TNG frmo a few days ago, after a few of my own modifications to the
> > code and Lukes help I have gotten it to compile successfully.  And I can
> > even change passwords using smbpasswd in my LDAP database.  But I get the
> > strangest error when I try to auth from NT against Samba as the PDC.  Samba
> > should be referencing the LDAP server, but it's not.  Here is what I get in
> > my log.smb
> > 
> > [2000/02/10 12:51:01, 0] param/loadparm.c:map_parameter(1582)
> >   Unknown parameter encountered: "ldap suffix"
> > [2000/02/10 12:51:01, 0] param/loadparm.c:lp_do_parameter(1954)
> >   Ignoring unknown parameter "ldap suffix"
> > [2000/02/10 12:51:01, 0] param/loadparm.c:map_parameter(1582)
> >   Unknown parameter encountered: "ldap bind as"
> > [2000/02/10 12:51:01, 0] param/loadparm.c:lp_do_parameter(1954)
> >   Ignoring unknown parameter "ldap bind as"
> > [2000/02/10 12:51:01, 0] param/loadparm.c:map_parameter(1582)
> >   Unknown parameter encountered: "ldap passwd file"
> > [2000/02/10 12:51:01, 0] param/loadparm.c:lp_do_parameter(1954)
> >   Ignoring unknown parameter "ldap passwd file"
> > [2000/02/10 12:51:01, 0] param/loadparm.c:map_parameter(1582)
> >   Unknown parameter encountered: "ldap server"
> > [2000/02/10 12:51:01, 0] param/loadparm.c:lp_do_parameter(1954)
> >   Ignoring unknown parameter "ldap server"
> > [2000/02/10 12:51:01, 0] param/loadparm.c:map_parameter(1582)
> >   Unknown parameter encountered: "ldap port"
> > [2000/02/10 12:51:01, 0] param/loadparm.c:lp_do_parameter(1954)
> >   Ignoring unknown parameter "ldap port"
> > [2000/02/10 12:51:01, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(500)
> >   Couldn't find user 'martin1' in smb_passwd file.
> > [2000/02/10 12:51:01, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(500)
> >   Couldn't find user 'martin1' in smb_passwd file.
> > [2000/02/10 12:51:21, 0] smbd/process.c:timeout_processing(795)
> >   Reloading services after SIGHUP
> > 
> > (Sorry for the huge paste, but I swear each line is different from the
> > next!!  =) )
> > 
> > Any suggestions, or fingers pointing me in the right direction would be
> > grateful.  Thanks.
> > 
> 
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