Have samba pdc using smbldap etc. In my test setup the samba is a bdc as the pdc is a crucial service. Running debian squeeze with samba 3.5.6 Working on getting pam to keep ldap and windows passsword in sync. have been using smbldap-passwd with some added password tests to change passwords. smbldap-passwd works smbpasswd works in auth part of pam the migrate works with pam_smbldap smbclient -L localhost authenticates OK. If I use no ssl or tls for ldap connections in smb.conf passwd will change the windows password. If the connection to the master ldap server uses ssl or tls I get this error in auth.log. Feb 15 13:21:51 nfondy passwd[30090]: pam_smbpass(passwd:chauthtok): Cannot access samba password database, not running as root. Again it works with out tsl or ssl. common-passwd: # here are the per-package modules (the "Primary" block) password requisite pam_passwdqc.so password [success=2 default=ignore] pam_unix.so obscure use_authtok try_first_pass sha512 password [success=1 default=ignore] pam_ldap.so minimum_uid=1000 try_first_pass # here's the fallback if no module succeeds password requisite pam_deny.so # prime the stack with a positive return value if there isn't one already; # this avoids us returning an error just because nothing sets a success code # since the modules above will each just jump around password required pam_permit.so # and here are more per-package modules (the "Additional" block) password optional pam_smbpass.so nullok use_authtok use_first_pass debug # end of pam-auth-update config smb.conf: [global] # I clearly do not know what to put in for ldap debug ldap debug level = 280 ldap debug threshold = 280 # ldap ssl = start tls ldap ssl = off ldap follow referral = auto ldap ssl ads = no # next to avoid nss ldapsam:trusted = Yes guest account = winguest #For Windows7 #client lanman auth = no client ntlmv2 auth = yes guest account = nobody # workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name workgroup = ADVOCAP netbios name = NFONDY # server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field server string = Fondulac Server #normaly will use second line. just using one to debug passdb backend = ldapsam:"ldaps://mstldap.advocap.org" # passdb backend = ldapsam:"ldap://fonldap.advocap.org ldap://mstldap.advocap.org" #log level = 9 syslog = 0 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 # next changes 4/4/2011 #smb ports = 139 445 smb ports = 139 time server = Yes # block from examples show add printer wizard = No add user script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-useradd -a -m '%u' delete user script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-userdel '%u' add group script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-groupadd -p '%g' delete group script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-groupdel '%g' add user to group script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-groupmod -m '%u' '%g' delete user from group script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-groupmod -x '%u' '%g' set primary group script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-usermod -g '%g' '%u' add machine script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-useradd -w '%u' # shutdown script = /var/lib/samba/scripts/shutdown.sh # abort shutdown script = /sbin/shutdown -c logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U logon drive = X: preferred master = No wins support = Yes ldap suffix = dc=advocap,dc=org ldap machine suffix = ou=machines ldap user suffix = ou=People ldap group suffix = ou=Group # not running winbind # ldap idmap suffix = ou=Idmap ldap admin dn = cn=samba,ou=DSA,dc=advocap,dc=org # idmap backend = ldap://mstldap.advocap.org # idmap uid = 10000-20000 # idmap gid = 10000-20000 map acl inherit = Yes printing = cups load printers = yes log file = /var/log/samba/smbd.log # Put a capping on the size of the log files (in Kb). max log size = 50 # Security mode. Most people will want user level security. See # security_level.txt for details. security = user encrypt passwords = yes unix password sync = No socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 interfaces = 192.168.2.239 127.0.0.1 domain master = no preferred master = no domain logons = yes logon script = %U.bat name resolve order = wins bcast hosts dns proxy = no preserve case = yes ...............shares etc... ................................................ smb.conf is a bit of a mess as it's evolved over about 10 years :-( I had been debugging by watch the ldap traffic with wireshark. As it works with out tls and it's hard to debug with tls on :-( It does the same if I connect through the local ldap server when it gets refered to an ldaps connection. To test I changed the referal in slapd.conf to ldap:/./ and it worked. Any suggestions on how to fix or debug? John