[Samba] Users can't login on Samba+Ldap

John Du jjohndu at gmail.com
Tue May 19 18:29:51 GMT 2009


Miguel Medalha wrote:
>
>> nss_base_passwd        ou=Computers,dc=DOMAIN,dc=IT?one
>>
>> should be   nss_base_hosts        ou=Computers,dc=DOMAIN,dc=IT?one
>>
>
> No, it shouldn't. From the point of view of a Windows domain, 
> computers are users too. The Samba manual even makes a joke about 
> that, saying that "computers are people too". Some people in fact put 
> the domain computers together with the users under a OU called 
> "People" or "Users".
>
> Of course, inside your LDAP database you can choose to put the 
> computers in a OU called "hosts". But then the entry above would be:
>
> nss_base_passwd        ou=hosts,dc=DOMAIN,dc=IT?one
>
>
> I am right now using a Samba PDC with the above configuration and it 
> is working perfectly.
>
>
Are you saying "nss_base_hosts        ou=Computers,dc=DOMAIN,dc=IT?one" 
and "nss_base_passwd        ou=Computers,dc=DOMAIN,dc=IT?one"  are 
equivalent

or are you  saying "nss_base_hosts        
ou=Computers,dc=DOMAIN,dc=IT?one" is wrong?


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