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

[Andrew Bartlett]

George Farris wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 14:45, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Do you have any suggestions?  I don't see it search for username after
> domain\username.  Is this a bug in samba?  I'm using 2.2.3a, compiled as
> follows on a redhat-7.2 machine.

Just see what you find in the Samba logfiles.

Andrew Bartlett

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