[Samba] Samba LDAP PDC help - can't login.

[Andrew Bartlett]

George Farris wrote:
> 
> I have followed the samba ldap pdc howto and am able to login and have
> ldap authenticate shell accounts via the console and ssh.  However, when
> I try to login via smbclient or a Windows 98 machine it won't
> authenticate.  The ldap search actually ends up looking for a UID with
> the domain included.  Log file shows thus:
> 
> daemon: conn=0 fd=9 connection from IP=127.0.0.1:1214 (IP=0.0.0.0:34049)
> accepted.
> conn=0 op=0 BIND dn="" method=128
> ber_flush: 14 bytes to sd 9
> deferring operation
> conn=0 op=0 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text=
> conn=0 op=1 SRCH base="dc=cc,dc=mala,dc=bc,dc=ca" scope=2
> filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=APOLLO\5CGEORGE))"
> ber_flush: 14 bytes to sd 9
> conn=0 op=1 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 text=
> 
> Shouldn't the objectClass be sambaAccount not posixAccount?
> Shouldn't the uid = george and not apollo\5cgeorge?

This is the search that samba makes via nss_ldap (hence the
posixAccount) when attempting to find usernames in the form
domain\username.  If this doesn't exist, then it tries 'username'.  This
isn't the cause of your problems.

Andrew Bartlett

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