[Samba] Samba and LDAP backend - howto docs problems?

[Paul Gienger]

Did you remember to do a "smbpasswd -w <manager password>" to store the 
password for the manager's dn in the secrets.tdb file? 

Wim Bakker wrote:

>On Wednesday 10 March 2004 16:19, John H Terpstra wrote:
>
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>
>>The use of these tools is documented in the book version of the
>>Samba-HOWTO-Collection, "The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide"
>>available from Amazon.Com. There are 5 chapters that are not in the HOWTO
>>document - these will be released on April 5th with consent from
>>Prentice-Hall (the book publisher).
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>>
>Hello,
>I tried the example , chapter 2 from "The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference 
>Guide" , Big Organization , followed exactly the procedure as described in 
>this book and get the following error: 
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>failed to bind to server with dn= cn=Manager Error: Invalid credentials
>
>Connection to LDAP Server failed for the 1 try!
>smbldap_search_suffix: Problem during the LDAP search: (unknown) (Invalid 
>credentials)
>Connection to LDAP Server failed for the 1 try!
>smbldap_search_suffix: Problem during the LDAP search: (unknown) (Invalid 
>credentials)
>Connection to LDAP Server failed for the 1 try!
>ldapsam_search_one_group: Problem during the LDAP search: LDAP error: 
>(unknown) (Invalid credentials)
>Connection to LDAP Server failed for the 1 try!
>smbldap_search_suffix: Problem during the LDAP search: (unknown) (Invalid 
>credentials)
>Failed to add entry for user gerrit.
>Failed to modify password entry for user gerrit
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>when trying to add the first user (gerrit).
>What is making up invalid credentials?
>I used openldap-2.1.19 , compiled with no options, 
>installed it , edited the /etc/openldap/slapd.conf as 
>described in the reference guide , edited smb.conf
>as described in the reference guide, (only changed
>the dc's to the domain the machine is in), added the 
>initial ldif as described in the book, but , no cigar.
>system is slackware 9.1, db-4.2.52, samba-3.0.2a.
>
>TIA
>Wim Bakker
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>

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