[Samba] Samba PDC- Administrator translated to root

[Steve Zeng]

That Howto miss something on this topic. try:

smbldap-polulate -k 0

It works for me. good luck

Steve

> Greetings,
> 
> I have a mostly working Samba Primary Domain
> Contoller. I have one last problem to work out.
> 
> When I try to connect as Administrator I get the
> follwoing message:
> 
> # smbclient -L localhost -UAdministrator%SOMEPW
> session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE
> 
> I watch the ldap logs and see that samba is requesting
> the following filter:
> 
> filter: (&(uid=root)(objectClass=sambaSamAccount))
> 
> I assume this is because the PDC Administrator user is
> assigned uidnumber=0 which is also the UNIX root
> user's UID.
> 
> I am betting this is something simple that I am
> overlooking. Any help is appreciated.
> 
> SYSTEM INFO:
> 
>     LDAP SERVER: Redhat Enterpris 3.4
>                  openldap-2.0.27-17
> 
>     SAMBA PDC: Fedora Core 1
>                samba-3.0.11-1
> 
> 
> I followed instructions found at :
> http://samba.idealx.org/smbldap-howto.fr.html
> 
> --Ez
> 
> 
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Regards,

Steve Zeng
Systems Administrator
Mainframe Entertainment Inc
T: (604) 628-1000 ext 5293