Hi all, Just wondering what Samba administration tool is the most frequently used ? What tool do admins use daily ? I've tried Cmd line / Samba tools, Swat, Webmin, LAM... and still haven't found a full-featured one and *user-friendly* one... Many Thanks :) Ganael.
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Ganael LAPLANCHE wrote:> Hi all, > > Just wondering what Samba administration tool is the most frequently used ? > What tool do admins use daily ? I've tried Cmd line / Samba tools, Swat, > Webmin, LAM... and still haven't found a full-featured one and > *user-friendly* one...I am very interested in seeing answers to this question as I am currently writing the LDAP chapter of the "Samba-3 by Example" book and would like to recommend a good tool. I too have spent a lot of time evaluating the LDAP admin tools, as well as how best to advise newer admins (those who have yet to cut their teeth on LDAP) how best to configure an LDAP backend. SWAT does NOT do LDAP configuration. LAM is nice, but has a little maturation aheead of it. It's very clsoe though. I have not tried the IDEALX Webmin tool yet. That's on my plate for tomorrow, as I start to write the new chapter. It's 3:21am here and I have been solidly at this since 8am yesterday morning. Time for bed now. I will see what your request delivers. Thanks for asking. - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: jht@samba.org
John H Terpstra schrieb:> I am very interested in seeing answers to this question as I am currently > writing the LDAP chapter of the "Samba-3 by Example" book and would like > to recommend a good tool.For LDAP I still use and recommend gq (http://biot.com/gq) on linux/unix systems. Another nice tool is JXplorer (http://www.jxplorer.org), which is written in Java and can be used on any operating system that has a Java runtime. For creating and modifying users/groups I use a slightly cutomized version of the Idealx smbldap-tools, which were of great help especially at the beginning of our LDAP-era. :-) For system administration, e.g. editing smb.conf, vim (http://www.vim.org) is all I need. cu, Uwe
Can anyone give me some direction. I am migrating a production system from NT4 PDC to SAMBA BDC. I have run across the following error in which I did not encounter when mirating the dev environment. Failed to fetch domain database: NT 0x0000004 Is seems as if the process stops short of completing. It stops shy of adding a handful of users and it does not add any users to the groups. There are no other errors. Does someone know if this is a corrupted NT Domain Database or even why does this happen. Thanks Terrance
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 tbey@tbey.com wrote:> Can anyone give me some direction. I am migrating a production system > from NT4 PDC to SAMBA BDC. I have run across the following error in which > I did not encounter when mirating the dev environment. > > Failed to fetch domain database: NT 0x0000004 > > Is seems as if the process stops short of completing. It stops shy of > adding a handful of users and it does not add any users to the groups. > There are no other errors. > > Does someone know if this is a corrupted NT Domain Database or even why > does this happen.What platform are you migrating to? Linux by any chance? If so, the account that was being migrated may have an account name that is illegal under Linux. Work around: 1. Create a UNIX group or User account. 2. Add the Account with the exact name as in Windows, then map the user/group to the NT account eg: NT Domain Group = "Domain Frog Population" Create UNIX group: groupadd domfrogpop Add NT Domain Group: net groupmap add ntgroup="Domain Frog Population" \ unixgroup=domfrogpop type=d Do this for every group and user name that can not be created under UNIX using the NT name. Finally, repeat the migration. - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: jht@samba.org
I am migrating to Red Hat ES 3.0. I ran this same procedure in the dev environment with about 90% of the same groups without a problem. I have some custom scripts that took care of letter casing and nameing lenghts. The only problem with creating each group by hand is that the reason we are using Samba 3.0 is to retain SID information. It would be a really big deal if we have to change SID information. DO you by any chance now what is the genral cause for this error, I was unable to find anything about the error Thanks Terrance> On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 tbey@tbey.com wrote: > >> Can anyone give me some direction. I am migrating a production system >> from NT4 PDC to SAMBA BDC. I have run across the following error in >> which >> I did not encounter when mirating the dev environment. >> >> Failed to fetch domain database: NT 0x0000004 >> >> Is seems as if the process stops short of completing. It stops shy of >> adding a handful of users and it does not add any users to the groups. >> There are no other errors. >> >> Does someone know if this is a corrupted NT Domain Database or even why >> does this happen. > > What platform are you migrating to? Linux by any chance? > If so, the account that was being migrated may have an account name that > is illegal under Linux. > > Work around: > 1. Create a UNIX group or User account. > 2. Add the Account with the exact name as in Windows, then > map the user/group to the NT account > eg: > NT Domain Group = "Domain Frog Population" > > Create UNIX group: > groupadd domfrogpop > Add NT Domain Group: > net groupmap add ntgroup="Domain Frog Population" \ > unixgroup=domfrogpop type=d > > Do this for every group and user name that can not be created under UNIX > using the NT name. > > Finally, repeat the migration. > > - John T. > -- > John H Terpstra > Email: jht@samba.org >