[Samba] Re: Getting Winbind IDMAP into LDAP?
John H Terpstra
jht at Samba.Org
Tue Aug 16 14:42:18 GMT 2005
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 03:35, Gibbs, Simon wrote:
> Hi Gints,
>
> Changing nsswitch.conf from:
>
> passwd: files ldap
> group: files ldap
> to
> passwd: files winbind
> group: files winbind
>
> did the trick. Running getent passwd/group began populating LDAP and I can
> search all the records using ldapsearch and slapcat.
Correct - the use of LDAP to store the IDMAP data requires winbind support
through NSS.
>
> Would this be an error in the documentation as (unless I was reading the
> wrong section) it uses the ldap entries in it's example?
The documentation may not be clear enough. Please help me to fix this.
What section (section number - not page number) and in which book?
Have you used the on-line version? Or do you have a printed copy?
Cheers,
John T.
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