[Samba] BDC & passwd changes

[John H Terpstra]

On 02/04/2010 06:05 PM, Mike Fabre wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 05:34:41PM -0600, John H Terpstra wrote:
>> On 02/04/2010 05:21 PM, Mike Fabre wrote:
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> I have a network setup with one Samba PDC and two Samba BDCs separated by routers (ref http://www.cybersource.com.au/users/mikef/samba/). In this test environment the Samba servers all use the master OpenLDAP server on the PDC, but the production system will have OpenLDAP servers (using master-slave replication) on all Samba servers.
>>>
>>> I can't get the Windows XP client to change a password or enroll on the domain when connected to either of the BDC's networks, however both functions work fine when connected directly to the PDC's network. If the XP client is enrolled onto the domain while connected to the PDC's network then it successfully authenticates against the domain on all three networks, incl after being relocated to either BDC network.
>>>
>>> Anyone got any ideas what my problem might be?
>>
>> In your smb.conf files for you have "interface only = yes" - if so,
>> remove it and it should work.  Check Samba bugzilla - there is a bug
>> report about this.
> 
> I don't have that option set in any of the config files, so I tried add 'interface only = no' on all three then ran testparm and it said 'Ignoring unknown parameter "interface only"'. Is this the bug you are talking about:
> 
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6970
> 
> That bug mentions the 'bind interfaces only' and 'interfaces' options which I also don't have in any of my config files and when I added it and ran testparm it didn't give me an error but the config it gave back didn't have either of those options in it.
> 
> 

You are correct, the parameter is "bind interfaces only = No", See:
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6348

- John T.