[Samba] Populating the samba/ldap database

[Gar Nelson]

John H Terpstra wrote:
> On Thursday 29 May 2008 11:18:51 Gar Nelson wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>   

perfectly.  Thank you.  I tried it on a test account, and several samba 
specific attributes were added to the account.

Gar