similar to: Samba+LDAP PDC - A few questions.

Is there a way to have the Samba password file sync up from the Linux (Red Hat 7) password file either automatically or in a batch process. We change user passwords every view months and it's a pain to have to change both files each time. Brad Bell Maharam

I've got a Samba 2.2.7a domain with an LDAP backend. It's been working for nearly 3 months now without much bother. By the way: Great work and thanks for all of the effort! I have been missing one minor thing from the setup since I moved away from NT 4: Password Expiration. In the past I have posted questions about this on the list and I've gotten two answers: "Wait for

hi, I've a problem with adding workstations to my samba/ldap pdc - if i add the workstation with win2000 to the pdc then the workstation gets registered in ldap with the following entry: (i am using smbldap-useradd.pl -w -d /dev/null -g computers -c 'Computer Account' -s /bin/false %u) which seems to me to be ok, but the workstation tells me that it couldn't get attached to the

I can't get a Win2k computer to execute a login script. Also, on both the XP computer and the w2k computer I get this message in their log file [2002/07/24 13:27:17, 0] rpc_server/srv_netlog_nt.c:get_md4pw(188) get_md4pw: Workstation sales1$: no account in domain sales1 is the XP computer, but I get the exact same error for win2k. Both computers (appear) to log on to the domain (as in, I

I am running RHES 3.0 with Samba 3.0.22 and Open Ldap 2.1.22 ldapsam and when I use User Manager for Domains and try to change a user password as root or any other Domain Admin account I get the following error: "The following error occurred changing the properties of the user jcampbell. The group name could not be found." When you look at groups under user manager Domain Users is set

Hi, i've compiled samba 2.2.4 on a Redhat 7.1 machine, working with openldap 2.0.23. I also downloaded smbldap-tools from IDEALX which i fixed myself to fit my needs. Everything work very fine when running the scripts in shell mode... but! In smb.conf : ============= add user script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-useradd.pl -w %u This line don't work and it should, because when running

Hello, I did not have any response of my first mail. Perhaps I did not be enough clear: Since I have installed the latest version of samba (2.2.7), I can't see user of my domain with the Win2K User management console. I have try to change several attribute in my user ( in particular acctFlags ) but I cannot manage with making my system works. Do you have any idea ? Thanks in advance

Hello, I'm new in Samba Ldap. I use samba-2.2.3a and openldap2-2.1.4-46. I am going to load in Ldap a lot of users in a ldif file as it is shown below. But I don't know how to put samba password. I can use: smbpasswd juan1 and then the fields lmPassword and ntPassword are changed. In this way, after load all users in Ldap I would need a script to do a smbpasswd for each user

Hello every body, i am using samba (2.2.8a) with ldap support. In the samba.schema, there are special attributes relatives to the user passord: pwdMustChange, pwdCanChange, kickoffTime, logoffTime, logonTime and pwdLastSet. All the samba's documentations i can found described those attributes as "currently unused", execpt the last one that represent the time modification since 1970.

Hi there, i got into some trouble after updating my samba installation to 3.0.27a. My installation uses Samba-3.0.27a,OpenLDAP-2.2.13,smbldap-tools-0.9.2 as a PDC NT4-domain.Originally I used the installation-guide from smbldap-tools and everything worked fine. I also limited the access to LDAP as told in the installation-guide with no problems. After updating to 3.0.27a i realized that when

Hi I have a PDC/BDC samba/ldap environment. PDC: samba 3.0.24 slapd 2.3.30 BDC: samba 3.2.5 slapd 2.4.11 Ldap replication is working fine, but I have noticed two issues 1- when a windows user change password on BDC, sambaPwdMustChange and sambaPwdCanChange is not synced on PDC (using ldap passwd sync = yes and unix password sync = no) 2- when using 'net sam set pwdmustchange' on

Hello folks, I am kinda confused as to how to get some values for ldap. For example, here is an ldif entry: dn: uid=gcarter, ou=people,dc=plainjoe,dc=org logonTime: 0 displayName: Gerald Carter lmPassword: 552902031BEDE9EFAAD3B435B51404EE primaryGroupID: 1201 objectClass: posixAccount objectClass: sambaAccount acctFlags: [UX ] userPassword: {crypt}BpM2ej8Rkzogo uid: gcarter uidNumber:

Hi everyone, I have a Samba 2.2.8.a + OpenLdap 2.0.25-1 as a PDC, on Red Hat 8, with kernel-2.4.18-14. First of all I can change the user`s password from my samba box doing: [root@samba sbin]# ./smbldap-passwd.pl user.a But, I`m getting an error when doing [ctrl]+[alt]+[Del]/Change password on WinXP logged to my domain as user.a, that says: "Username or password are incorrect. the

Hello, I am doing a samba pdc with ldap. When I try to login to the domain, or access some shares I get this in my ldap logs: Mar 7 16:46:16 localhost slapd[3588]: conn=25 op=4 SRCH base="ou=People,dc=test,dc=org" scope=1 filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=DOMAIN\5CTD))" Mar 7 16:46:16 localhost slapd[3588]: conn=25 op=4 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 text= My

Hi, I'm trying to run samba 2.2.6 + OpenLDAP as user/group database ( not /etc/passwd). nss_ldap+pam_ldap is installed and working OK, as I can login using ssh, or trough console with one of ldap user. But trying to connect to samba, when samba is ran as #samba -d 2 -i I get: ... init_sam_from_ldap: User [ldapuser] does not ave a uid! pass_check_smb failed - invalid password for user

I'm trying to set up my LDAP in preparation to configure my Samba PDC. In the Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide it give instructions on howto setup slapd.conf (section 10.4.4.3) After modifying the file it instructs to run /sbin/splapindex -f /splapd.conf When I run this I get the following error: /etc/openldap/schema/samba.schema: line 423: AttributeType not found:

Has anyone had any luck adding machine accounts from w2k to a samba 3.0 pdc? I posted the issue last week, as I noticed others were encountering the same problem. The weird thing is I had it working on a box before. But this time I'm using pam_ldap to avoid local unix accounts, and it wont work. I copied the config over from the box that was working, made changes for the different config

Hi Samba People ! I'm experiencing some issues with the smbldap-tools suite and post it here in hope someone could give me some help. I want first to thank you if you take teh time to read my message til the end, as it's a little bit long ;) We do have a Debian Box on our LAN we use primarily as a File Server. This server has initially been setup with Etch (4.0, net-install). I've

hello, I want to use a samba server and an ldap server in two different lans. but win xp pc can not join to pdc domain. i ping the ldap server and smbldap-usershow shows the users but the "net rpc getsid" can not fetch sid and coputers can't be added to ldap. any idea?

How do you add an "Administrator" account to ldap. I want to leave root in /etc/passwd but have "Administrator" in ldap I have checked Howto Collection and the Samba-Ldap-3 but they contain no information. The Ldap-Howto has a suggestion but then says not to use. Godfrey