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The Next Guide Will Be... August 3rd, 2005 The next guide on Sambadmin will about creating a great LDAP infrastructure. I have been disappointed that I have only received two comments about what the next guide should be, especially since the site has had over 500 visitors in the past two days. I came to this decision after reading my posts. I stated that the core motivation behind all of this is

Hi there, I'm working on a new print server to replace one that's pretty long in the tooth. I'm using standard packages from Ubuntu Hardy Heron which appears to be Samba 3.0.28a. We use LDAP for the authentication backend. I seem to have that configured properly as I get a ldap_connect_system: succesful connection to the LDAP server in the log but every login fails with: FAILED

Dear Samba & Users. I have spent some time going over the documentation, however I still no not fully understand what the cause is. I am focusing on Samba 3 by Example chapter 5 & 6 specifically Chapter 5 smbpasswd -w 123456 [root@node1 data]# smbpasswd -w 123456 Setting stored password for "cn=Manager,dc=ddesign,dc=com" in secrets.tdb Chapter 6 indicates in the smb.conf to

Hello, sambadmins. First some background. Server is (soon to be dist-upgraded) Debian Lenny 64-bit and samba version is 3.5.6~dfsg-3~bpo50+1. Samba as PDC, LDAP as passdb backend, pam/nss uses same ldap on Linux side, so all ID-s are "in sync". Locks settings are default. Windows XP SP3 as clients. Few w...