[Samba] machine account locations

[Ilia Chipitsine]

> OK I'm confused.
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> Can machines be in ou=Computers,dc=somewhere,dc=net ?

yes, if nss_ldap will find them there (or if you store machine accounts 
without ldap).

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> Every thing works fine if I configure so that machine accounts are created under
> ou=Users. If configured for machines to be in ou=Computers, I can't add a new
> machine. Error returned is "The user name could not be found." This is from the w2k
> machine itself.
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> The release notes for 3.0.11 seem to say adding machines under ou=Computers should
> work.
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> The IDEALX Samba-OpenLDAP Howto (Revision 1.9) seems
> to indicate it should work. But ldap.conf needs to be set to:
> nss_base_passwd     dc=somewhere,dc=net?sub
> nss_base_shadow     dc=somewhere,dc=net?sub
> nss_base_group      ou=Group,dc=somewhere,dc=net?one
> (I did this.)
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> The IDEALX Smbldap-tools User Manual (Release:0.8.7)
> In section 6.9 on page 18 says no, _unless_ you apply the fix as listed above.
>
> Note that the IDEALX howtos were released after Samba 3.0.11.
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> I'm using SUSE Pro 9.2 with all patches up to date.
> Samba version is samba-3.0.11-2.1 from the binaries on the ftp site.
>
> The /var/log/messages seem to indicate that
> add machine script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-useradd -w "%u"
> is trying to add the machine directly in dc=somewhere,dc=net.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Hudson
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