[Samba] Samba+LDAP problems

[Edmundo Valle Neto]

If it was asked to the list answer to the list please, other people can 
not guess what was already answered.
Sending it back ...

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>>
>> Trying to add anything else works?
> with de command line a don't know how add another thing, but with 
> phpldapadmin i can add for example users.

The best documentation are from smbldap-tools project [1] and samba [2], 
[3].

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>>
>> I don't use LAM, but use smbldap-tools and phpldapadmin. In turn to 
>> saying that the services aren't properly configured (as nothing 
>> worked and you said that there isnt anything like that in google), I 
>> think helps begin from the beginning.
>>
>> Are all services running in the same machine?
> before, services were running now, i don't know what happen but slapd 
> doesn't work when i write /etc/init.d/slapd start as root in command 
> line, the syslog show me this:
>
> Oct 29 16:31:56 skull1 slapd[12409]: @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.3.38 (Sep 
> 17 2007 21:09:04) $ 
> ^Iroot at monster:/tmp/buildd/openldap2.3-2.3.38/debian/build/servers/slapd
> Oct 29 16:31:57 skull1 slapd[12410]: bdb_db_open: Database cannot be 
> opened, err 13. Restore from backup!
> Oct 29 16:31:57 skull1 slapd[12410]: bdb(dc=skull-one,dc=com,dc=ar): 
> DB_ENV->lock_id_free interface requires an environment configured for 
> the locking subsystem
> Oct 29 16:31:57 skull1 slapd[12410]: bdb(dc=skull-one,dc=com,dc=ar): 
> txn_checkpoint interface requires an environment configured for the 
> transaction subsystem
> Oct 29 16:31:57 skull1 slapd[12410]: bdb_db_close: txn_checkpoint 
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> Oct 29 16:31:57 skull1 slapd[12410]: backend_startup_one: bi_db_open 
> failed! (13)
> Oct 29 16:31:57 skull1 slapd[12410]: bdb_db_close: alock_close failed
> Oct 29 16:31:57 skull1 slapd[12410]: slapd stopped.
> Oct 29 16:31:57 skull1 slapd[12410]: connections_destroy: nothing to 
> destroy.
>
> i don't know why... yesterday it work perfectly.

Probably your database is corrupted, you can try to fix it, recover a 
backup, or if you don't have a backup and nothing works, start it over. 
If you don't know how to make any of the alternatives, maybe is time to 
learn a little more about how LDAP works, before trying to use it.

>> You said that you are using Debian right? 
> yes
>> The package 3.0.26a doesn't come with the stable release "Etch", 
>> which release are you using? 
> i have debian sid (unstable release)

I don't recommend it in servers. And don't recommend it in desktops if 
you don't know how to solve your own problems.

>> How do you configure your apt repositories and install your packages? 
>> (if the packages related with the problem didn't came from the stable 
>> repository, helps write its versions). 
> i configured my apt repository manualy with nano -w 
> /etc/apt/sources.list and my repositories are:
>
> deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib
>
> ldap-account-manage 2.0.0-1
> ldap-utils          2.3.38-1
> slapd               2.3.38-1
> smbldap-tools       0.9.4-1
> phpldapadmin        0.9.8.4-2
>
> i think that all packages are there...

Ok. Everything from Sid.

>> How did you populated your LDAP tree?
> i can't populate my LDAP tree jet ...

The package drops a working database practically with only the root and 
administrator DNs. I mean prepare it be used by samba, creating the 
needed OUs and domain information.

>> One detail. smbldap-tools doesn't use samba to do its job, it 
>> connects to LDAP directly, so, supposing that you have configured 
>> smbldap-tools properly, its very unlikely that the problem has 
>> anything to do with the samba package, as you have noticed that 
>> changing versions doesn't solve the problem.
> aahh. ok.
>
> thanks and best regards

1. http://download.gna.org/smbldap-tools/docs/
2. http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/
3. http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/



Regards.

Edmundo Valle Neto