[Samba] Cannot update Sun One DS directory with smbpasswd

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Hoferer, Patrick K. (Space Systems) wrote:
| I can't update the users within our LDAP database using smbpasswd. I have
| attached the output from the smbpasswd debugger below:
...

| smbldap_search_suffix: searching for:[(&(objectclass=sambaSamAccount))]
| smbldap_open: already connected to the LDAP server
| ldapsam_getsampwnam: Duplicate entries for this user [hoferpa] Failing.
| count=4
| Failed to find entry for user hoferpa.
| Failed to modify password entry for user hoferpa
|
| Below is the LDAP entry for the user hoferpa:
|
| isun02$ ldapsearch -h isun02.sbirs.eng -b dc=sbirs,dc=eng -D
| "uid=sambaadmin,cn=directory administrators,dc=sbirs,dc=eng" -w abc123
| uid=hoferpa
| uid=hoferpa,ou=people,dc=sbirs,dc=eng
...

| objectClass=sambasamaccount
| userPassword=abc123
| sambaPrimaryGroupSID=S-1-5-21-3648157004-3289977631-1919091730-500-9027
| sambaSID=S-1-5-21-3648157004-3289977631-1919091730-500-823304

You got me.  Have you looked at an ethereal trace to
see exactly what the directory server is sending back to smbd?
What do you have set for the various 'ldap XXX suffix' lines in smb.conf?




cheers, jerry
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