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I have the same question, I've got an existing openldap sever running with posixAccount users for linux pam/nss auth working OK . How can I enter smbpasswd users information to the existing Ldap database (just add the sambaSamAccount information needed for a PDC base on Ldap auth) !? Idealx scripts creates a whole dedicated Ldap database :-( .

Hi, before my situation: I have a samba server like a domain server for my subnet(win2k). I need limit the access to this domain for certain users on certains machine. For example, Bob olny cant work on \\casiopea and he can?t work on \\orion How i cant do it that !? I try to put in the netlogon section the line that may me to do it that, but really, it don?t work: i test the file smb.conf, and

...m now at the stage where I have an LDAP server running and have created all of the NT domain groups in the LDAP directory. I have successfully created numeric id accounts in LDAP and an attempt to Vampire the accounts from the old NT4 PDC to the Samba PDC resulted in all the users appearing in directory_administrator but no Samba logins working as the XP clients reported that the accounts didn't exist on the server. Running pdbedit -Lw showed only about 5 accounts so I'm guessing there's a problem somewhere along the lines. My question is therefore, is Vampire going to work in a situation where...

Hi guys and girls, A client of mine is seriously investigating migrating their 7 NT servers and 3000+ users to Linux running Samba. I've read one or two documents so far about the migration, but I'm still a little unclear about a number of things. When you have a chance I'd really appreciate your guidance on the following items. 1.) LDAP, /etc/passwd or MySQL backend (if supported).