[Samba] Linux (specially Fedora 8), issues with ldap and samba services starting up at boot time

[Adam Williams]

no sure why it doesn't work on boot.  if you're using a redhat based 
distro, have you tried putting your manual commands in 
/etc/rc.d/rc.local?  should work that way.

Andrew Richey wrote:
> Hey Adam,
>
> Well, I have my Samba LDAP stuff within an organizational unit on 
> purpose - but do you think that would cause an issue?  Remember, when 
> I start it manually, it causes no issues at all.  It's only when the 
> service is set to start at boot time.
>
> Adam Williams wrote:
>> this is what mine looks like:
>>
>>  passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://gomer.mdah.state.ms.us
>>  ldap suffix = dc=gomer,dc=mdah,dc=state,dc=ms,dc=us
>>  ldap machine suffix = ou=People
>>  ldap user suffix = ou=People
>>  ldap group suffix = ou=Group
>>  ldap idmap suffix = ou=Idmap
>>  ldap admin dn = cn=Manager,dc=gomer,dc=mdah,dc=state,dc=ms,dc=us
>>
>> so i think your ldap suffix = line is wrong.
>>
>>
>> Andrew Richey wrote:
>>> Hey there, thanks for the response!  Here is that same section out 
>>> of my smb.conf.
>>>
>>> passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://example.com:389
>>> ldap admin dn = cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com
>>> ldap suffix = ou=samba,dc=example,dc=com
>>> ldap user suffix = ou=users
>>> ldap machine suffix = ou=computers
>>> ldap group suffix = ou=groups
>>>
>>>
>>> The main difference between mine, and your working config, is that I 
>>> specify port 389 in my passdb backend paramater.  Also, my admin dn 
>>> isn't within the same part of the tree that the samba stuff is in.  
>>> I have the samba users/machines/groups within ou=samba.  Do you 
>>> think this could cause an issue?
>>>
>>> BTW, I'm using OpenLDAP.
>>>
>>>
>>> satish patel wrote:
>>>> i have face time kind of problem but i got solution in smb.conf
>>>>
>>>> This is good and working fine
>>>>
>>>> passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://example.com
>>>> ldap admin dn = cn=Directory Manager
>>>> ldap suffix = dc=example,dc=com
>>>> ldap user suffix = ou=People
>>>> ldap machine suffix = ou=Computers
>>>> ldap group suffix = ou=Groups
>>>>
>>>> This is wrong not working and got same error ldap retry..
>>>>
>>>> passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://example.com
>>>> ldap admin dn = cn=Directory Manager
>>>> ldap suffix = dc=tulipconnect,dc=com
>>>> ldap user suffix = ou=People,dc=example,dc=com
>>>> ldap machine suffix = ou=Computers,dc=example,dc=com
>>>> ldap group suffix = ou=Groups,dc=example,dc=com
>>>>
>>>> I am runung is configuration FDS  server
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> */Andrew Richey <ar2748 at columbia.edu>/* wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     Hey guys,
>>>>
>>>>     For some reason, when I enable smb and nmb to start at boot 
>>>> time... I
>>>>     get error messages in my log.smbd.
>>>>
>>>>     [2008/02/01 18:47:00, 1] lib/smbldap.c:another_ldap_try(1153)
>>>>     Connection to LDAP server failed for the 1 try!
>>>>     [2008/02/01 18:47:04, 1] lib/smbldap.c:another_ldap_try(1153)
>>>>     Connection to LDAP server failed for the 2 try!
>>>>
>>>>     From this you'd think that either I hadn't stored the right 
>>>> password
>>>>     (via smbpasswd -w), or the LDAP server is somehow unreachable. But
>>>>     that
>>>>     isn't the case. And when I start both services manually, after 
>>>> boot,
>>>>     everything works great. Was curious if anyone else has run into 
>>>> this
>>>>     problem. Granted, I am a lot more familiar with BSD variants than
>>>>     I am
>>>>     Linux... so I may be missing something obvious.
>>>>
>>>>     -Andrew
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