[Samba] Populating the samba/ldap database

[John H Terpstra]

On Thursday 29 May 2008 11:18:51 Gar Nelson wrote:
> I'm working on getting Samba3 running in a RHEL4 environment.  The
> components are;
> samba3-3.0.28-35
> openldap-2.2.13-8.el4_6.4
> smbldap-tools-0.9.4-1.el4.rf
>
> I already have a working and functional ldap installation. The rub is
> that the existing ldap accounts do not have any samba specific
> attributes. Samba by Example assumes that I'm initially creating an ldap
> database, where the reality is that I'm adding samba to an existing ldap
> enabled network.
>
> So here's the question: If I perform step 3 of Procedure 5.8 in Chapter
> 5 of the online Samba by Example (smbldap-populate -a root -k 0 -m 0) am
> I going to screw up my existing accounts, or will this politely add the
> necessary samba attributes to the existing accounts?

Do NOT do this.  If you already have your POSIX user and group accounts in 
place, let Samba add the SambaSAM components.  You can just run "smbpasswd -a 
user_name" to add the SambaSAM components.

> I'd just as soon avoid hosing up all my ldap user accounts, but I'd
> really like to have a functional samba installation too.

Does that help?

- John T.