[Samba] SOLVED: Must a Samba PDC use LDAP for nss?

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 20:38, Chew, Darren wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> It seems like Samba 3 does require the PDC to use LDAP for nss when using 
> ldapsam.
> 
> I reconfigured Solaris 9 to use nss_ldap and 'getent group' now shows the 
> posixGroups created by the 'net rpc vampire' operation. I then cleaned up 
> the LDAP database and ran vampire again. Each group is created 
> successfully with incrementing gidNumber 10000 onward. 'net groupmap list' 
> also shows that all groups mappings were migrated too.
> 
> But my vampire bombed when migrating users. I really need help here. Any 
> help received is much appreciated.  
> 
> Can't migrate the users across still...
> 
> [root at my-pdc /]# net rpc vampire -U DOMAIN\\Administrator -S NT4PDC -d 4
> 
> Can't call method "get_value" on an undefined value at 
> /opt/local/samba/sbin/smbldap-useradd.pl line 154, <DATA> line 283.
> [2004/01/02 14:13:41, 1] utils/net_rpc_samsync.c:fetch_account_info(445)
>   fetch_account: Running the command 
> `/opt/local/samba/sbin/smbldap-useradd.pl -a -m "Administrator"' gave 29
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assuming that you joined the domain...

net rpc join -S NT4PDC -w DOMAIN -U Administrator%admin_password

then 

net rpc vampire -S NT4PDC -U Administrator%admin_password

should work provinding...

- smb.conf should say domain master = no
- smbd & nmbd daemons are NOT running

Craig