[Samba] Samba PDC w/ LDAP & Mass Adding Users [SOLVED]

[msmith at edtech.mcc.edu]

Okay -- got it working.

I was using nss_ldap 238...
I just unmerged 238, and emerged 207-r1 and it seems to be working fine now.

Thanks for everyones help!


Marc



>
>>
>> 1.) Make sure you are not using an antique version of OpenLDAP.  For
> some totally incomprehensible reason most distributions (especially
RedHat derived ones) ship with very very very old versions of this
software.  SuSe does quite a bit better.
>
> OpenLDAP 2.2.26-r2
>
>> 2.) You don't say what versions or backend you are using.  If you are
> using a BDB or HDB backend (and you should) you need to make sure your
DB_CONFIG settings are reasonable.  If you are using an LDBM backend
then just give up.
>> ftp://ftp.kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/LDAP106.pdf
>
> Sorry, I am using BDB -- but I have used both LDBM and BDB. Cache
settings and all seem to work good.
>
>> 3.) Does the "id {username}" still work for a user after it stops
> addding-for-read?  Can you perform an ldapsearch, without restarting the
DSA?
>
> acad1 ~ # id lhart1
> id: io.c:171: ber_free_buf: Assertion `((ber)->ber_opts.lbo_valid==0x2)'
failed.
> uid=10214(lhart1) gid=505Aborted
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>> If you've disabled ncsd caching how is nscd crashing?
>>
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> Well, I can't seem to totally disable it from popping up -- I've added
"name cache timeout = 0" to smb.conf (if I understood that correctly,
thats supposed to stop nscd from starting, maybe not). I "disabled" it
by commenting everything in nscd.conf.
>
>>
>> This is required if you want to enumerate members of a group,  it helps
> performance.
>
> Cool, thats good to know. =)
>
>
> "Now, the interesting part. If I change the '-g students' to '-g 'domain
users'' everything works fine!
>
> Adding users to 'Domain Users' works, but 'students' does not?
>
> Actually, adding a new group with the first part being "Domain" such as
group 'Domain Studs' works fine. If the group name doesn't have "Domain"
in it, it gets screwed up?"
>
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>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Marc
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