--with-ldapsam without ldap server?

[Andrew Bartlett]

Gerald Carter wrote:
> 
> 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.

This is somthing I have a patch for (see samba-technial postings). I'm
looking to intergrate this into HEAD in the next few days, subject to
comments from other developers.

Andrew Bartlett

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