[Samba] tdbsam:

[Andrew Bartlett]

Ronald Roeleveld wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Iam quite new to Samba, Iam trying to set it up as a PDC.

It is really not a good idea to run Samba CVS snapshots if you are not
expericinced with it's use.  Yes, it will bite...

> When I do: smbpasswd -m machine -a user I get an error message like this:
> tdbsam: no NUA rids available, cannot add user paulien$!

You have enabled the experimental --with-tdbsam option, and selected my
ugly hack an _nua backend...

As detailed in the smb.conf manpage, you must set a 'non unix account
range' (I think that's what I called it - see the manpage).  This gives
us a range in which to add NUA accounts.  All users not already on the
unix system are added as NUA.

> Failed to add entry for user paulien$.
> Failed to modify password entry for user paulien$

Becouse the backend could not find a RID, it could not add the machine.

> What does this mean? I tried searching on google and some other sites, but
> don;t seem to find the correct answer anywhere..

Thats becouse very few people (nobody outside development, and some lost
folks using debian unstable) uses tdbsam, and even less use _nua.

The _nua idea is very neat, and very bad...  It has serious design flaws
when the whole NT system comes togeather.  That's why we are reworking
the whole box and dice...

> I'd be happy to provide some more information if needed..


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