LDAP an %variables

[Marcel Ritter]

On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Andrew Bartlett wrote:

> Marcel Ritter wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > 
> > > Marcel Ritter wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi there!
> > > >
> > > > I recently set up a samba server with LDAP support. After some tests with
> > > > different windows versions my profile was trashed. So I tried to store
> > > > the profile in a subdirectory "%a" (which should resolve to the windows
> > > > release WinNT Win2k etc.). Unfortunately this does not work when specified
> > > > in LDAP.
> > > >
> > > > Is there a reason for this?
> > > >
> > > > I'd really like to use the %<var> statements in LDAP. I already hacked
> > > > around a bit and it works for me (just copied one line!) - however I'd
> > > > like to see it in the official release if there's no further technical
> > > > problem I can't see by now.
> > >
> > > It has problems when you then store the expanded form - you lose the
> > > LDAP magic on the first password change etc.
> > >
> > > To get around this, we came up with a way we have 'defaults' for certain
> > > things, using the same stuff as the 'fudge it up' solution for
> > > smbpasswd.  Except we don't store the expanded strings back, unless they
> > > are modified by a client.
> > 
> > Is there another way to store profiles from different windows versions in
> > different directories? I saw this behaviour on Novell and I'd really like
> > to use a similar feature with samba.
> 
> Sure - just don't set it in LDAP, just use the smb.conf options.  They
> *do* take the % modifiers.

Ah - so if the LDAP field is empty samba will default to entries in
smb.conf - that's nice to know and should solve my problems.

Thanx for your quick help!

> Andrew Bartlett

Ciao,
  Marcel

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