[Samba] Re: Member Server creates sambaDomainName LDAP entry

[Jamrock]

"Brian High" <high at u.washington.edu> wrote in message
news:479A74CB.40309 at u.washington.edu...
> Short version:
>
> Why does my domain member server create a sambaDomainName entry in LDAP?
>
> Long Version:
>
> I have created a Domain Member Server for a "NT4 style" Samba domain
> with an LDAP backend.
>
> It is a print server, running Winbind (because it solved a group SID
> mapping problem and an 'invalid SID' error in syslog), and it works fine
> in all other respects, but this:
>
> After joining the domain, the member server creates a sambaDomainName
> entry in LDAP that I don't think should be there.  It is of the form:
>
> sambaDomainName=HOSTNAME,dc=example,dc=com
>
> ... where HOSTNAME is the hostname of the domain member server.
>
> I have Googled this and have come up with some posts to this list:
>
To which LDAP server is your smb.conf file pointing?  The one on the member
server or the one on the domain controller?