[Samba] LDAP Examples

[Zane C.B.]

On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:36:13 -0500
"Zane C. B." <vvelox at vvelox.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:17:09 +0000
> Miguel Medalha <miguelmedalha at sapo.pt> wrote:
> 
> > I think that you will find this very helpful:
> > 
> > http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/happy.html
> > 
> > It deals with the configuration of Samba with a LDAP backend.
> 
> Meh. Unfortunately like lots of other stuff covering Samba and LDAP,
> a lot is left out. I've yet to see any thing that counts as a decent
> breakdown of what the various attributes are for and etc yet.
> 
> One issue I've run across recently is there is no documentation on
> doing simple things with Samba and LDAP, such as updating the
> password, yes you can properly set the hash values in the two
> attribute Samba wants, but then it just considers them as being
> expired.

Actually never mind. Just found it at
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/passdb.html
in table Table 11.3.

I would suggest starting there with figuring out LDAP and Samba.