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Hi all, I read a few posts a while back from people who were trying to get this done. Has anyone succeeded in doing a transparent (or an as-close-to-as-possible) migration of an NT4 PDC to a Samba PDC? I know it entails stuff like snatching the passwords with pwdump or the like, and importing them into smbpasswd/LDAP, and toying around with RID's/SID's for the new PDC to make it look

>From Google searches, it seems that using SAMBA 2.2.7 + Open LDAP on Linux patched for POSIX ACL support delivers a functional PDC/BDC pair, and that directory replication can take place automatically once set up. Could someone please confirm that this actually works? The background to this issue is that we are moving a large number of NT4 file servers to a LINUX platform, but need to keep

Hello all I recently recompiled samba 2.2.5 with LDAP, SSL and libsmbclient as additional configure options. I used the base 2.2.5-2mdk source package (to the uninitiated, it's a Mandrake package). LDAP works fine (as it had before), haven't really tested SSL, but here's the kicker: I can't find libsmbclient anywhere - although I'm not really sure what I'm looking for

...Ph. 586-254-5800 Fx. 586-254-5804 -----Original Message----- From: Ronan Waide [mailto:waider@waider.ie] Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 9:18 PM To: samba@lists.samba.org; Diego Rivera; Robert Adkins Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: [Samba] NT PDC to Samba PDC migration On January 27, lrivera@racsa.co.cr said: > Has anyone succeeded in doing a transparent (or an > as-close-to-as-possible) migration of an NT4 PDC to a Samba PDC? Yes, search the archives for the procedure I posted on Nov 25 or thereabouts. The only "problem" as such is that if you need to keep the PDC ar...

Hello all. First, a little background... I recently downloaded samba-*-ldap-2.2.5-2mdk , installed on Mandrake 8.2 and got everything working fine. I have LDAP installed for "single sign-on" support. I can use LDAP to authenticate other Linux boxes, and have Samba as a PDC for some Win2000 boxes - all working fine. Linux users are the same as PDC users, except for their passwords

...ect to a resource, they would then be prompted with a user account and password box for validation. Isn't Microsoft Security grand? Regards, Robert Adkins II IT Manager/Buyer Impel Industries, Inc. Ph. 586-254-5800 Fx. 586-254-5804 -----Original Message----- From: Diego Rivera [mailto:lrivera@racsa.co.cr] Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 10:10 PM To: samba@lists.samba.org; Robert Adkins Subject: [Samba] Possible PDC security hole re/machine accounts Hey all! I was fiddling with some LDAP stuff for fun's sake, and I ran into this strange situation. The situation occurred with...

Hello!! A customer of mine recently experienced a catastrophic failure of their PDC, and their BDC is not running as stable as we'd like. They've agreed to move PDC/BDC schema to Linux (currently they run NT4). So the question is: having ONLY a BDC available for SAM database, how do I extract that so I can replicate that to Samba and do a "transparent" upgrade (if possible)?

Hi all I'm currently using Samba 2.2.5 with LDAP support on my PDC and normal (no-LDAP) on other Linux boxes I have, and smbsh keeps failing with this error: ERROR: can't get smbw shared lock (Invalid argument) Does anyone know what's up? Is smbsh broken in general (obviously it is in my case)? Best Diego

Hello all!! Something strange is happening recently with pam_smbpass.so. I get the errors: passwd: PAM unable to dlopen(pam_smbpass.so) passwd: PAM [dlerror: pam_smbpass.so: undefined symbol: ldap_value_free] passwd: PAM adding faulty module: pam_smbpass.so And the passwd command returns "Module unknown". The rest of Samba is working fine as a PDC - can log in, out, copy files, etc.

Hi all! A while ago I caught a discussion re Samba and LDAP SAM backend, with OpenLDAP and nss_ldap. It seems that the reason the smbd process keeps crashing (and thus losing connections) has something to do with the fact that the LDAP standard allows connections to be unilaterally closed by the directory server, and this was causing Samba to crash. Again - this is my hazy recollection of the

Hey all! I was fiddling with some LDAP stuff for fun's sake, and I ran into this strange situation. The situation occurred with both my stock Samba and my modifications applied. I had a Win2000 Advanced Server machine already joined into the domain and working perfectly with PDC logons through the Samba server (v2.2.7, LDAP-SAM backend, OpenLDAP 2.0.25). While testing if the searches were

Hi all. I have recently installed a Samba-2.2.7 as a PDC with LDAP backend. All works "as expected", with three exceptions: 1) Sometimes, the Win98/ME clients drop connections to the server (persistent mapped shares cease to work). This happens when the computer has been left idle for a few minutes. the deadtime parameter is NOT set (i.e., it's at its default of 0, to disable

I seem to recall the existence of a utility to convert (dump?) TDB files into text format so one could peruse the contents. I also seem to recall that one could do the reverse - build a TDB from a text file. Is this true? Does this utility exist? Would I have to hack my own out of the TDB code in Samba? Best Diego

Hello all! It's been asked several times whether Samba can act as an ActiveDirectory server, and the answer has always been a categorical NO. However, I don't recall seeing any thread dealing with the question of whether such functionality COULD be developed. Obviously, it WOULD be *possible* to develop this functionality (in the strict sense of the word possible), but would doing it

Hello all I've been doing some TCP dumps of Samba among other things, to try to fish out a slight communications glitch that I suspect has to do with a bad IP stack on an older machine, and I'm wondering if any of you could help make my life a bit easier: When doing the dump, I used the '-C' flag which causes capture files to be rotated when they reach a certain size. I made the

Hi all! I've had a lot of success setting up Samba PDC's using the LDAP-SAM backend, and got password sync working between Unix (LDAP) passwords and Samba passwords. I can also have other Linux boxes use Winbind to auth vrs. the PDC and thus achieve the same password sync functionality (i.e., Samba changes both PAM and Samba passwords, as well as checking them). Naturally, this also

Hi all, I've run into what I believe to be a funky bug in Samba 2.2.7. Here's the scenario description (all Linux, all Samba 2.2.7, all same versions of LDAP software, etc.): Environment: 1 Samba PDC w/LDAP backend 2 Samba Clients joined to the PDC w/valid mach. accounts, etc. Clients are configured as follows: - PAM auth and password changes are done using winbind

Hello all!! I have partially achieved full single-signon, synched passwords with Samba 2.2.5 and OpenLDAP 2.0.25 on Mandrake 8.2. I can change my PDC password from a Win2K box and it synchs the Linux/Unix/LDAP password correctly. I can change my password from Linux using 'passwd' and it synchs the PDC password. Samba is the PDC, and uses LDAP as the smbpasswd backend. This all works

Hello all, I currently have the following setup working nicely: A Samba PDC, with LDAP-SAM, syncs passwords between LDAP and Samba (and /etc/shadow when appropriate) correctly - either when changing them through Samba (samba has PAM support enabled and working) or through normal Unix mechanisms (/usr/bin/passwd, using pam_smbpass, pam_ldap, etc.). Several other Linux machines, running Samba,