samba - Aug 2003 - With sambaSamAccount, do I need an add user script and an add machine script?

Dear Folks,

With Samba 3.0.0 RC1, openldap-2.1.22, with samba as PDC and as much as possible
in LDAP, do I need to write an add user script and an add machine script?  Or
does samba handle this itself?  Sorry, I'm rather confused about how to go
about
setting this all up.

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Hello,

Well, I had a look at the idealx scripts.  Looks pretty straight forward to
update
them.  Boy, Jerry, one-person miracle worker, you look like you could use some
extra help!  I like your programming style in convertSambaAccount.

But: is the idea that samba should call them?  Is the idea that samba would call
(an updated) smbldap-useradd.pl to add a machine?  Or would samba do it itself
some
other way?  I just want to understand the basic idea.

Another way of putting the same question: with ldapsam (using sambaSamAccount)
as
backend, should smb.conf contain something like

add machine script = /path/to/updated-or-rewritten-idealix-script
?
Do I need an
add user script = /path/to/updated-or-rewritten-idealix-script
?
add user to group script?
delete user script?

I am confused (as noted below and elsewhere) since in man smb.conf, under
"add
machine script",  it is written:

              This option is only required when using sam  back-ends  tied  to
              the  Unix  uid method of RID calculation such as smbpasswd.

So, is ldapsam tied to the Unix method of RID calculation?  I'm sorry, I
don't
understand what that means.

Nick Urbanik wrote:
> Dear Folks,
>
> With Samba 3.0.0 RC1, openldap-2.1.22, with samba as PDC and as much as
possible
> in LDAP, do I need to write an add user script and an add machine script? 
Or
> does samba handle this itself?  Sorry, I'm rather confused about how to
go about
> setting this all up.
--
Nick Urbanik   RHCE                               nicku(at)vtc.edu.hk
Dept. of Information & Communications Technology
Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Tsing Yi)
Tel:   (852) 2436 8576, (852) 2436 8713          Fax: (852) 2436 8526
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