[Samba] LDAP storage for idmap.

[John H Terpstra]

On Thursday 31 March 2005 01:20, Meli Marco wrote:
> Hi,
> I try to store the idmap in LDAP storage, but it gives me the follows
> errors.
> What's wrong? (further details are in the message post before)
> Thanks, Marco.
> /var/spool/samba/log.winbindd
>  [2005/03/30 17:53:26, 0] sam/idmap.c:idmap_init(138)
>  idmap_init: failed to initialize remote backend!
>  [2005/03/30 17:53:26, 1] nsswitch/winbindd.c:main(897)
> Could not init idmap -- netlogon proxy only [2005/03/30 17:54:34, 1]
> nsswitch/winbindd_user.c:winbindd_fill_pwent(50) error getting user id for
> sid S-1-5-21-597916725-1483147915-620655208-19426
> [2005/03/30 17:54:34, 1] nsswitch/winbindd_user.c:winbindd_fill_pwent(50)
> error getting user id for sid S-1-5-21-597916725-1483147915-620655208-19426

Did you initialize the LDAP Directory? See Chapter 6 of "Samba-3 by Example" 
downloadable from: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-Guide.pdf

Also check the Appendix of this book.

- John T.