[Samba] Re: Authentication confusion - may be LDAP related

[paul kölle]

Ric Tibbetts wrote:
> dn: username=u123456,ou=aixuser,cn=aixsecdb,cn=aixdata
> uid: 1040
> username: u123456
> <snip>
> 
> with u123456 being my *nix login.
> 
> To me, this looks very wrong (not to mention that there's no dc=).
It looks wrong and the author surely has had no clue what cn means etc.
nevertheless it should work.


> If I'm seeing this right, shouldn't the login be the "uid" not
> "username"? Is that what Samba is looking for?
You can set "ldap filter = (username=%u)" in smb.conf along with a
suitable value for "ldap suffix".

Check the users with "getent passwd" to test if they are visible to the
system.