[Samba] Samba + LDAP

[Mike Eggleston]

On Mon, 08 Oct 2007, simo might have said:

> On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 15:45 +0100, Ricardo Manuel Esteves (VI) wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I got samba 3.0.26a on my Fedora 7, and when i try to add users with
> > smbpasswd -a username, it only works if the user exists as a linux
> > user... i got a Centos 4.4 system with samba 3.0.10 and it  works even
> > if the user doesn't exists on the system.
> > 
> > Can anyone explain me why this happens? is it from this new version
> > (3.0.26a) or may be a problem of 
> > Fedora 7?
> 
> Always been like that since I can remember, and it is by design.
> Simo.

The subject says Samba + LDAP. I use smbldap-passwd to add users to LDAP.

Mike