[Samba] Failed to retrieve password from secrets.tdb with anonymous bind

[Iarly Selbir]

Try run:

root# smbpasswd -w ldap_password

and restart the samba

Reggars,

Iarly Selbir


2008/9/9 Dr. Alberto Benati <benati at economia.unife.it>

> Samba 3.2.1 on linux OpenFiler 2.3
>
> I have an external LDAP server with anonymous bind and pam
> ProFtpd linked to LDAP server works well without error
>
>
> But samba does not work, in smbd.log I have:
> [2008/09/09 22:01:54,  0] passdb/secrets.c:fetch_ldap_pw(888)
>  fetch_ldap_pw: neither ldap secret retrieved!
> [2008/09/09 22:01:54,  0] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_connect_system(952)
>  ldap_connect_system: Failed to retrieve password from secrets.tdb
> [2008/09/09 22:01:54,  1] lib/smbldap.c:another_ldap_try(1178)
>  Connection to LDAP server failed for the 1 try!
> .........................
>
>
> Part of smb.conf:
> ldap ssl = no
> ldap suffix = ou=People,dc=unizz,dc=it
> encrypt passwords = yes
> security = user
> passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://ldap.unizz.it
> ldap user suffix = ou=People
> pam password change = no
>
>
> I tried to add password in secrets.tdb, but:
> [root at backup2 samba]# smbpasswd -w ""
> ERROR: 'ldap admin dn' not defined! Please check your smb.conf
>
> I then added in smb.conf a fake:
> ldap admin dn = ou=People,dc=unizz,dc=it
>
> [root at backup2 samba]# tdbdump /etc/samba/secrets.tdb
> {
> key(19) = "SECRETS/SID/BACKUP2"
> data(68) = "\01\04\00\00\00\00\00\05\15\00\00\00A,\EB\C1\E5\5C/(\E7\DDl
>
> \A7\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00"
> }
> {
> key(45) = "SECRETS/LDAP_BIND_PW/ou=People,dc=unizz,dc=it"
> data(1) = "\00"
>
>
> now without the row I have always same prev error
> and with the row ldap admin dn = ou=People,dc=unizz,dc=it I have now:
> [2008/09/09 22:15:13,  0] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_connect_system(992)
>  failed to bind to server ldap://ldap.unizz.it with
> dn="ou=People,dc=unizz,dc=it" Error: Server is unwilling to perform
>       unwilling to allow anonymous bind with non-empty DN
> [2008/09/09 22:15:13,  1] lib/smbldap.c:another_ldap_try(1178)
>  Connection to LDAP server failed for the 1 try!
> ..................
>
> rightly, but I can not go out from this situation.
> Any suggestion?
>
> Thank you
> Alby
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