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

[John H Terpstra]

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Graham Leggett wrote:

> John H Terpstra wrote:
>
> >>Looking at the LDAP logs, I see that Samba is trying to do the following
> >>LDAP search:
> >>(&(&(uid=admin)(objectClass=sambaSamAccount))(objectClass=sambaSamAccount))
> >>
> >>This search fails, because the ldif displayed in the howto does not
> >>include the sambaSamAccount objectclass in the admin object:
>
> It seems the docs are describing setup for Samba v2.2, while I am using
> v3.0.

What in particular makes you think that these are Samba-2.2 docs? What
have we messed up this time?

- John T.

> Are there docs for v3.0 anywhere?
>
> > Have you also checked chapter 2 of TOSHARG (The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and
> > Reference Guide)?
>
> I think so. The docs I am looking at are at
> http://samba.mirror.ac.uk/samba/docs/man/, which is apparently what
> you're referring to, though the docs seem to be for v2.2.
>
> > Have you set up your scripts?
> > 	- add user script
> > 	- delete user script
> > 	- add machine script
> > 	- add group script
> > 	- delete group script
> > 	- add user to group script
> > 	- etc.
> >
> > Have you test driven each manually to prove that it works?
>
> There is no reference to scripts in the docs for samldap, and I see no
> error messages saying that anything is missing.
>
> > Have you configured nss_ldap and proven that it works?
> > 	ie: getent passwd
> > 	    getent group
>
> Not yet - I don't want to fiddle with anything unix wise until I get
> Samba working. Is it required for Samba to work?
>
> > Does:
> > 	pdbedit -Lw
> >
> > list the users in the old smbpasswd format?
>
> No, it returns nothing (an empty list).
>
> Regards,
> Graham
> --
>

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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org