[Samba] samba-ldap-debian

[Thomas Dewar]

Markus Amersdorfer wrote:

>On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:56:48 +0200
>Thomas Dewar <tdr at infobi.com> wrote:
>
>Hi Thomas!
>
>  
>
>>I'm pretty new with all this ... but I know that you can configure
>>samba with the ldap module by doing :
>>./configure --with-ldap
>>But how do you proceed with apt from Debian as the only module which 
>>concerns samba is :
>>apt-get install samba.
>>    
>>
>
>To be precise: "samba" is not a module but a package (which depends on
>other packages such as "samba-common" itself).
>
>  
>
>>it is probably a small silly question but thanx for your help
>>anyway...
>>    
>>
>
>I'm currently writing a Debian-LDAP-HOWTO (will be available from my
>homepage within the next weeks or so) with more thorough explanations
>of how to do what and when - including Samba. Nevertheless, the answer
>to your question boils down to something like:
>
>Samba 2.2 can only one method at a time: keep the users in local flat
>files (default) or keep them in an LDAP-tree. To change from one to the
>other you have to recompile. Debian defaults to the default :) in this
>case.
>
>You need to get the Debian source packages for Samba:
>
>Add sth. like the following to /etc/apt/sources.list
>  deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free
>
>and run
>  apt-get update
>  mkdir ~/samba-source
>  cd ~/samba-source
>  apt-get source samba
>  cd samba-2.2.3a
>  vi debian/rules
>    --> add "--with-ldapsam \" just before "--with-msdfs"
>  dpkg-buildpackage
>
>The last command will either build the packages or complain of some
>build-dependencies you have to meet. "apt-get install" these packages
>(it tells you) and run dpkg-buildpackage again.
>
>  cd ..
>  dpkg -i samba-common_2.2.3a-12_i386.deb samba_2.2.3a-12_i386.deb
>
>You'll probabely also install smbclient, smbfs, samba-doc and whatever
>else you might find useful.
>
>Last but not least: set the packages to HOLD status (so that they won't
>be replaced by Debian's packaging system with the next upgrade) and
>_keep track of security issues_ yourself from now on (as the packages
>won't be upgraded automatically).
>
>
>Here are some add-ons:
>Include /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/examples/examples/LDAP/samba.schema.gz
>in your LDAP's configuration.
>
>Run
>  smbpasswd -w $LDAP_BINDPW
>  
>
thanxs for paying attention to my problems but smbpasswd doesn't work : 
no matter how I change debian/rules by adding --with-ldapsam (or even 
--with-ldap) I keep on getting the same error which is :

        -w not available unless configured --with-ldap

what have I done wrong?