Fedora directory users - Mar 2008 - trouble installing samba

I''am installing samba-pdc using
http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Howto:Samba

i am stumbled at the final point of adding Administrator:
pdbedit -U S-1-5-21-1017320176-1068811812-2284442376-500 -u Administrator -r
Username not found!
pdbedit -U S-1-5-21-1017320176-1068811812-2284442376-500 -u Administrator -a
Cannot locate Unix account for Administrator

in discussion i read:
http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:Howto:Samba

"I found that the step to use pdbedit to modify the administrator account
was
failing. after much searching i realized it is expecting the Administrator 
account that was added with ldif2ldap of the sambaAdministrator.ldap to 
*already* have a sambasamaccount object class associated with it."

i dunno how to do it :(

other comments make me wonder if using this howto i will be ever able to 
install samba-pdc :(


if someone was able to do it, please! share your experience with us :)
        m.

Does anyone have samba working with FDS?

I can add a sambasamaccount objectclass, but it looks like there are missing
attributes from advanced properties.  From the schema config, I see the
required attributes are only: objectclass, sambasid, uid.  Other important
attributes such as sambaLMpassword, sambadomain, are only listed as allowed
attributes.  I don''t know if I have to add them manually, how many are
required, or how to generate the encrypted password.  If anyone has any
ideas, any help would be appreciated.





On 3/3/08, Maurizio Marini <maumar@cost.it> wrote:
>
> I''am installing samba-pdc using
> http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Howto:Samba
>
> i am stumbled at the final point of adding Administrator:
> pdbedit -U S-1-5-21-1017320176-1068811812-2284442376-500 -u Administrator
> -r
> Username not found!
> pdbedit -U S-1-5-21-1017320176-1068811812-2284442376-500 -u Administrator
> -a
> Cannot locate Unix account for Administrator
>
> in discussion i read:
> http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:Howto:Samba
>
> "I found that the step to use pdbedit to modify the administrator
account
> was
> failing. after much searching i realized it is expecting the Administrator
> account that was added with ldif2ldap of the sambaAdministrator.ldap to
> *already* have a sambasamaccount object class associated with it."
>
> i dunno how to do it :(
>
> other comments make me wonder if using this howto i will be ever able to
> install samba-pdc :(
>
>
> if someone was able to do it, please! share your experience with us :)
>         m.
>
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On Wed March 5 2008, solarflow99 wrote:
> Does anyone have samba working with FDS?
>
> I can add a sambasamaccount objectclass, but it looks like there are
> missing attributes from advanced properties.  From the schema config, I see
> the required attributes are only: objectclass, sambasid, uid.  Other
> important attributes such as sambaLMpassword, sambadomain, are only listed
> as allowed attributes.  I don''t know if I have to add them
manually, how
> many are required, or how to generate the encrypted password.  If anyone
> has any ideas, any help would be appreciated.
Hi 
i finally got samba working with fds 1.1; what was missing was /etc/ldap.conf
configuration.
This url can be very helpful:
http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=UNIX_and_Windows_Accounts_in_Zimbra_LDAP_and_Zimbra_Admin_UI

the "Configuring on RHEL5/CentOS5/Fedora7 using authconfig"
help me.
Firstly:
authconfig --enableldap --enableldapauth --disablenis --enablecache \
           --ldapserver=gregzimbra1.zimbra.com
--ldapbasedn=dc=gregzimbra1,dc=zimbra,dc=com \
           --updateall

further:
"
The last parameter will update /etc/ldap.conf, /etc/nsswitch.conf and
/etc/pam.d/system-auth configuration files. The only file which requires manual
editing is /etc/ldap.conf.
The base line should be already there. It is inserted by authconfig. You should
also see a uri line with the address of your ldap server. The host, binddn,
bindpw, rootbinddn lines
should be added as explained above and /etc/ldap.secret file should exist and
contain a password."

after these 2 stepes, i was able to add administrator samba account.
Thns, i installed smbldap an di run smbldap-populate
populate is very very powerful, it does and fixes everything, at all.
After populate veriything is workung like a charm :)

	m.


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