[Samba] Samba and LDAP Base DN
Paul Gienger
pgienger at ae-solutions.com
Wed Mar 16 16:23:04 GMT 2005
Misty Stanley-Jones wrote:
>More info: I tried deleting ou=corp (after making a backup of course) and
>still no dice. As soon as I put back ou=corp and make the baseDN in smb.conf
>ou=corp, everything works. If I take all the entries under ou=corp and copy
>them one level up, I can't authenticate to Samba anymore. It doesn't make
>any sense.
>
>
Hrm... where is your admin DN? Is it part of ou=corp and you're not
setting that and the relevent data in secrets.tdb?
(grasping at straws)
>On Wednesday 16 March 2005 10:57 am, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote:
>
>
>>Right now, I have all of my Samba stuff under ou=corp,dc=mycompany,dc=com.
>>I have it this way because there used to also be
>>ou=furn,dc=mycompany,dc=com with a different domain. Now that I only have
>>one domain, I would like to move everything to dc=mycompany,dc=com. So I
>>copy all of the subentries of ou=corp (ou=computers, ou=people, ou=grooups,
>>and the sambaDomainName entries) to dc=mycompany,dc=com. I change the
>>/etc/ldap.conf files to all point to the new OU. Perfect. However when I
>>change the baseDN in my smb.conf, all of a sudden I cannot authenticate.
>>Even when doing smbcontrol smbd reload-config. The only thing I can figure
>>is that it might be doing a 'sub' search and finding two entries for my
>>user, because I left the 'ou=corp' DN as it was. Is it that, or is there
>>something else I have to do in order to restructure my LDAP tree?
>>
>>TIA,
>>Misty
>>
>>
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