Samba and referrals in LDAP

Gerald Carter jerry at samba.org
Wed Jan 23 07:08:09 GMT 2002


On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 MarshallJ at switch.aust.com wrote:

> I've managed to get Samba to store its passdb in an LDAP (openldap 2.0.18)
> backend (using 2.2 cvs from about a week ago) and all is working well
> except in a multi-ldap-server configuration.
>
> When I am communicating with the master ldap server, I am able to
> add/change/delete entries. When communicating with a slave ldap server, I
> get a referral to the master ldap server to make the change. When samba
> contacts the master ldap server, it doesn't bind with the appropriate dn
> to authenticate and make the change.
>
> I am using simple authentication (ie not SASL) and am not currently using
> SSL.

This is probably a bug.  I've got a patch lying around for this
(submitted by someone on samba-technical but I've not had time
to review ti and check it in).

You can check the samba-technical ml archives for the patch
and try it yourself (although it may not go in in its current
form).











chau, jerry
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