samba - Jan 2002 - Samba-LDAP HOWTO

Hello,

Concerning the upcoming 2.2.3 release of Samba with LDAP support.

Question 1:

Is it possible that you define multiple ldap servers in the option "ldap 
server ="?
In the event that one LDAP server is down, the next LDAP server defined can 
take over.
If not, no authentication is possible if the LDAP server is not available?

Question 2:

Is there any fallback possible to a local password file even with using 
LDAP so that when the LDAP server is down you can still authenticate 
against a local password database?

Werner Maes
KULeuven

> Is it possible that you define multiple ldap servers in the option 
> "ldap server ="?
> In the event that one LDAP server is down, the next LDAP server 
> defined can take over.
> If not, no authentication is possible if the LDAP server is not 
> available? 
If this option does not exist, you could try using roundrobin querys and 
dns :=)
>
> Question 2:
>
> Is there any fallback possible to a local password file even with 
> using LDAP so that when the LDAP server is down you can still 
> authenticate against a local password database?
>
> Werner Maes
> KULeuven
>
>

Hi all,

For those of you who speak French, I've writtent a small Samba 2.2.8a/Ldap
Howto.
It's available on my website : http://www.martymac.com (Avoid the html
format still the conversion isn't really perfect !).
I hope this document will help you :)

Regards,
Gana?l LAPLANCHE.

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Pablo Jejcic wrote:
> What is the meaning of this message in the log files:
>
> Smbd/nttrans.c: (1762)
> Call_nt_transact_ioctl: Currently not implemented
It means the client requested a SMB/CIFS function call that Samba-2.2.2
does not support. You should update to Samba-2.2.8a or Samba-3.0.0 when it
ships (very soon).
> Samba Version: 2.2.2
> Client Windows XP Professional
>
>
> Any ideas or anything that you can tell me will be really appreciated.
Hope that helps.

- John T.
-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht@samba.org