Adding machine to domain crashes LDAP (smbldap-useradd)

[Michael Wood]

On 11 January 2011 16:57, Chris Beach <chrisb at pintys.com> wrote:
> I apologize if this shouldn't be posted on the samba mailing list, I figured
> it's more appropriate here then LDAP, but maybe not.
>
> When I try and add a machine to my Domain (just upgraded the domain
> controller to samba 3.3.14, with LDAP 2.3.43 as back-end) it crashes LDAP,

I assume you mean OpenLDAP 2.3.43?

> and brings down my domain :\
>
> The error I get is: smbd[11973]:   _samr_create_user: Running the command
> `/usr/sbin/smbldap-useradd -W "fs5c1l1$"' gave 3
>
> and then ldap crashes:

What happens if you tun that command from the command line without
involving Samba at all?

> smbd[11973]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://127.0.0.1: Can't
> contact LDAP server
>
> Can anyone suggest where I start looking, I haven't been able to find what
> "gave 3" means, I've got a new user waiting for their laptop, and can't get
> it on the domain.

The "gave 3" thing is more probably the exit status of the
smbldap-useradd command.  You'd have to check its documentation to see
what that means.

Samba, smbldap-useradd, etc. should not be able to crash the LDAP
server.  If it does, it is a bug in the LDAP server and you should
probably look in its log files and contact the OpenLDAP mailing
list(s) about it.

-- 
Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>