[Samba] Samba PDC with Slave LDAP server

[ashok cvs]

Hi all

Thanks for Replying , i have another query.

In BDC , according the samba3-by example PDF,
IDMAP is said to be pointed to Master LDAP Server.
But in Master LDAP server i have samba 3.0.21, which is configured as PDC,
i have created users and all windows users are able to login to PDC.

but i have only these entries in ou=Idmap, in Master LDAP server
dn:ou=Idmap,dc=mydomain,dc=com
objectClass: Organizational Unit
objectClass: SambaunixIdpool
ou: idmap
uidnumber: 10000
gidnumber: 10000

Apart from these entries in ou=Idmap, i donot have any other entries,

i home some how feel, there should be more entires, ie when ever a user is
created
there should some entry.

what is wrong,

now since i have already created users, and all my windows clients are
already joined,
without disturibing the current environment, is it possible to correct the
Idmap problem.

please guide  me

Regards
ashok

On 1/27/06, Anthony Messina <amessina at messinet.com> wrote:
>
> ashok cvs wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I have a samba PDC with LDAP with samba version 3.0.21,(domain=
> mydomain.com
> > ).
> >  the samba and openldap are configured on a single system.
> >  i would like to setup samba BDC with slave LDAP server for domain
> > mydomain.com
> > and samba BDC is also having DNS server for domain .
> >
> > my query is, the nsswitch.conf and ldap.con of BDC should point to it's
> own
> > LDAP server
> > or Master LDAPserver
> >
> > and in smb.conf file of BDC, the passdb backed should point to master or
> > slave.
> >
> > and smbpasswd -w <password>, (which password should i enter , the master
> > LDAP server rootdn password or slave LDAP server rootdn passowrd)
> >
> > please guide me
> >
> > Regards
> > ashok
>
> the bdc should point to its local ldap (slave) server.  this is what
> gives you the ability to run as a *backup*.  if you had both pdc and bdc
> pointing to the master ldap server and that server went down, your bdc
> is worthless.
>
> read the "official how-to" at samba.org.  it describes the various
> options for setting up a pdc and bdc with ldap.
>
> http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/samba-bdc.html
>
> by far, the best is pointing the pdc at the master ldap server
> (read/write) and pointing the bdc at the slave server (read only).
>
> you will also need to point your nsswitch.conf and your ldap.conf on the
>   bdc to the slave server (assuming your samba bdc is on the same host
> as your slave ldap server.
>
> -anthony
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