[Samba] Samba 3.0 + LDAP

[abartlet at samba.org]

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 02:14:13PM +1000, Gonzalo Servat wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 18:10, abartlet at samba.org wrote:
> > On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 10:09:12AM +1000, Gonzalo Servat wrote:
> > > Hi All
> > > 
> > > I've compiled Samba 3.0 alpha 17 using --with-ldapsam. In smb.conf I've
> > > got:
> > > 
> > > passdb backend = ldapsam
> > > ldap admin dn = "cn=Manager,o=Sambatest,c=AU"
> > > ldap suffix = c=AU
> > > ldap ssl = off
> > > 
> > > ... and the admin dn password is in the secrets.tdb file.
> > > 
> > > Other than missing an "n" in "backend", :), is there anything clearly
> > > wrong with my setup? Am I missing a configuration directive in smb.conf?
> > 
> > You need to set that to 'passdb backend= ldapsam:ladp://ldap.server:port
> 
> Ah ha! Thanks. That did it...
> 
> Another question. I've mapped the group 'domadm' (using smbgroupedit) to
> 'Domain Admins'. In my /etc/group, I have:
> 
> domadm: smbadmin
> 
> ... and smbadmin is a user in the LDAP tree. I've confirmed that I can
> successfully map a share on the samba server using smbadmin.
> 
> I tried to join my samba domain (it's a Win2k box) and I get prompted
> for a login/password of a user that has enough privileges to join the
> domain. I entered 'smbadmin' and the password and I get 'Access is
> denied'. I noticed in the logs that it tries various combinations of the
> name 'smbadmin' before giving up with this error:

You can only join with ROOT.  The user being a 'domain admin' is only for
the benifit of the windows clients.  In Samba 3.0, you can use set

admin users = @domadm

to get a similar effect - but remeber that all actions of those uses will be
as root, not just joins etc.

Andrew Bartlett