[Samba] Help needed with installation

[Rowland Penny]

On Fri, 2021-12-10 at 14:13 +0000, Jeroen Baten via samba wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to connect an Ubuntu 20.04 samba server to FreeIPA
> (running 
> on CentOS).
> 
> On Ubuntu I get " No builtin nor plugin backend for ipasam found",
> the 
> smb.conf has "passdb backend = ipasam:ldap://ipa.company.com".
> 
> What am I missing? 

The fact that you cannot build ipasam.so on Ubuntu.

> What book to buy? What RTFM did I miss?

This bug report:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/1552249
> 
> I really searched a lot but to no avail. Help!

How about running a Samba AD DC instead of freeipa ?

Rowland