[Samba] LDAP PDC problems

[Edoardo Causarano]

Hello there,

I'm running 2.2.5 compiled with ACL and LDAP auth. The PDC used to work 
flawlessly using smbpasswd but I want to dual boot the workstations to 
Linux so I need a centralized LDAP authentication repository.

Once I reinstalled the LDAPized samba I started populating the directory 
with the "well-known" identities using the smbldap tools (bear in mind 
I'm more of a UNIX guy so these MSisms are a bit of a black magic to 
me). Following that I started using smbldap-useradd to insert the users 
in the domain, chowning their homes to the new UNIX uids and wile I was 
at it, moved the profiles to a separate place in the filesystem (the 
profile used to be in unix HOME; worked fine but docs said it gives 
problems so I followed instructions).

The situation is as follows:
Users no longer have unix private group, their primary group is 100 
(Users) which is default in those tools and logon to the NT4 machines is 
ok and attribute mapping is fully turned on (hoped this would cure the 
sync briefcase becoming a regular dir after roaming logoff/login). 
File/Directory masks are all 0777.

I'm experiencing many problem with this configuration so please give me 
some hints (documentation pointers if necessary): MS Office keeps 
popping up the registration initials/username window as if is had been 
run for the first time (often locking up). Printing no longer works, eg. 
Acrobat 5 asks to define a default printer before proceeding but the 
control panel wizard refuses to run. Outlook express asks to choose a 
user profile from an empty list and creation of a new one fails. Homes 
drive mapping no longer works. Accounts belonging to Domain Admins group 
work ok.

I'm not near the machines ATM, but I suspect it's the primary group 
that's @ fault; perhaps it sould be Domain Users. Can you confirm this 
or is there something worse @ play?

Ciao,
Edo