[Samba] No builtin nor plugin backend for ldapsam found

[Rowland Penny]

On 03/06/15 11:05, Francesco Malvezzi wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> in order to upgrade a working samba3 domain controller with OpenLDAP
> backend, I compiled samba-4.1.17 with the following switches:
>
> --with-ldap
>
> according to configure log, the compiler found the ldap libraries:
> [...]
> Checking for header ldap.h
>                          : yes
> Checking for header lber.h
>                          : yes
> Checking for header ldap_pvt.h
>                          : no
> Checking for ber_tag_t
>                          : ok
> Checking for library lber
>                          : yes
> [...]
> Checking for variable LDAP_OPT_SOCKBUF
>                          : ok
> Checking for variable LBER_OPT_LOG_PRINT_FN
>                          : ok
> Checking for library ldap
>                          : yes
> Checking for ldap_init
>                          : ok
> Checking for ldap_init_fd
>                          : ok
> Checking for ldap_initialize
>                          : ok
> Checking for ldap_set_rebind_proc
>                          : ok
> Checking for ldap_add_result_entry
>                          : ok
> Checking whether ldap_set_rebind_proc takes 3 arguments
>                          : ok
> Building with Active Directory support.
> [...]
>
> nevertheless, while smbd refuses to start with:
> No builtin nor plugin backend for ldapsam found
>
> So it looks I didn't enable ldapsam support.
>
> What did I miss? How to enable ldapsam support in samba4?
>
> thank you,
>
> Francesco

Hmm, '--with-ldap' is the default, so you don't really need to give it, 
what OS are you compiling on ? what extra packages did you install 
before you compiled samba ?

Rowland