--with-ldapsam without ldap server?

[Gerald Carter]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Buchan Milne wrote:

> I have been compiling samba rpms (samba_2_2 cvs and 3.0-alphas) for
> Mandrake (http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/samba), and we are
> investigating the possibility of including ldap support (via
> --with-ldapsam). However, it seems samba then has problems running as a
> PDC without an ldap server. I tried to add a user to samba (via
> smbpasswd), and it failed with an error relating to not being able to
> contact the ldap server. I have not put any ldap settings into smb.conf.
>
> All of this has worked with samba 2.2.2 and samba-3.0-alpha without
> using --with-ldapsam.
>
> Can someone confirm whether this can or cannot be fixed via
> configuration options, and whether it is considered a bug or not?

It is a deficiency at the moment.  The samdb backends are chosen at
compile time.





chau, jerry
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