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Dear Team, The OpenLDAP stuff on this page: http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/happy.html is not the preferred backend, i.e. ldbm, it really, really needs to be bdb. See: http://www.openldap.org/faq/index.cgi?_highlightWords=bdb%20ldbm&file=1085 "ldbm uses a neutral storage interface which in principle could wrap dbm, ndbm, gdbm or sleepycat as underlying storage;

Hi this is more of an OpenLDAP issue, but since it is mostly used with Samba, some experience would be helpful. We have a SLES9 PDC, running samba-3.0.14a, openldap 2.2.6 Sometimes, the OpenLDAP gets corrupted, no ideas why. It's a bad thing. We have 100+ computers, 300+ users, which shall get 350 computers and 800 users. What would you suggest in order to be reliable ? Reliability is

Hi, I am running into a bit of a strange problem. I have a Perl script that creates usernames for mass-adding users. This script used to use the standard Linux 'adduser' command to add users to the system. I am now switching everything over to LDAP, including Samba. I have modified the custom Perl script to add users in bulk for smbldap-tools. system("smbldap_tools/smbldap-useradd -a

I am following the instruction in Samba by Example chapter 6 on a RHEL4 server. Everything seems OK until I get to 6.3.5.7, which says to do the following:- root# getent passwd | grep Adminstrator which returns nothing, indicating that the nsswitch (nss_ldap libary) is not working. I cannot find anything in any of the log files to give my a clue nor any hints on how to debug this. Any

hi list, we have some trouble with openldap (back-bdb) and samba. i think it's more a problem with openldap and bdb (http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-bugs/200510/msg00185.html) but i want to know something about your experiences with openldap in large enterprises. what are your settings for slapd and bdb? or is there a better backend for slapd than bdb? which software versions are

Hi all, Got a wee problem here that I'm looking for some help with :- Two servers, Server 1 one has openldap something running on it and hosts profiles and users home directories Server 2 (newer) has all their high capacity directories on it and uses the ldap server on the Server 1 is to be phased out. I downloaded and built openldap 2.2.11 on server 2 generated an ldif file of the

Okay -- got it working. I was using nss_ldap 238... I just unmerged 238, and emerged 207-r1 and it seems to be working fine now. Thanks for everyones help! Marc > >> >> 1.) Make sure you are not using an antique version of OpenLDAP. For > some totally incomprehensible reason most distributions (especially RedHat derived ones) ship with very very very old versions of this

Hello Guys, I have configured samba & ldap as a domain controller before, but never on a redhat 9 system. I have updated samba & ldap as far as i can tell to the latest. Firstly I have a smaller issue (I think) I get this error when trying to restart ldap, as usual I have followed the samba howto; however it's not the documentation that is the problem more so an unusal problem or

I am wondering why slapd in my CentOS 4.4s erver was unable to run. I already configure ldap to start at boot and when I issue command /sbin/service ldap start it is sucessfully started but again when I check the status etheir thru service or by netstat, it was stopped and not exist respectively. Is anybody encountered this. If you need some more info just let me know. Thanks. junji linux

I have 6 domain controllers that were running samba-tng using openldap, Six months ago I converted one of the controllers to Samba3.0.20 and exported my ldap information to be compatible with Samba, every works fine. Specifically I could change passwords at the local windows machine. Two weeks ago I converted my other 5 controllers to Samba3.0.21b everything works except changing passwords at

Hello All. How do I find out what flags were used to compile the Centos openldap-2.3.27-8.el5_2.4 rpm package? I'm specifically wondering if it was compiled with --enable-lmpasswd Thanks! -- Flambeau Inc. Technology Center - Baraboo, WI Email : tblader at flambeau.com Keyserver: http://pgp.mit.edu KeyID: 0x00E9EC2C

Hi everybody, i'm new on this List as well in openldap. I'm trying to set up a testserver with ldap and samba. Is the first time i have installed openldap. So far everything went fine. I have compiled and installed all the prerequiste Software (cyrus-sasl-2.1.17, openssl-0.9.7c, autoconf-2.59, BerkeleyDB-4.2). Compiling, make depend and make did also run through. The problem is when i

I have a Samba server set up to share files within a small network (with 2 clients) and I use OpenLDAP to store user accounts. I have pretty much got everything working (smbclient prints the correct information and I can browse and log into Samba via Nautilus) except I can't get the Vista client to connect to Samba, as it won't even prompt for a username and password it simply pops up

I get the following error message when trying to add a user to samba using... smbpasswd -a user1 Unknown parameter encountered: "ldap bind as" Ignoring unknown parameter "ldap bind as" Unknown parameter encountered: "ldap passwd file" Ignoring unknown parameter "ldap passwd file" New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: Failed to setup a TLS session

Hi, I?ve been trying to populate an LDAP directory with IDMAP information from Winbind using NSS_LDAP without much success over the last week. Can anybody tell me if I?ve done anything obviously wrong? I?ve followed the example shown in the Samba ?By Example? doc and am at the stage where the LDAP directory has been created and configured, NSS_LDAP config is amended, smb.conf contains entries to

Hi, Is it possible to get openldap using gdbm ? I've already tried to set it in the config, but it fails the start. Any help would be appreciated. Warm Regards, M?rio Gamito

I download 1.4rc6 version, and #rpmbuild -ta glusterfs-1.4.0rc6.tar.gz --without ibverbs # cd /usr/src/redhat/RPM/i386/ # rpm -ivh glusterfs-1.4.0rc6-1.i386.rpm my configuration: # cat /etc/gluster/glusterfs-server.vol volume bdb type storage/bdb option directory /data2/glusterfs option checkpoint-timeout 10 option lru-limit 200 end-volume volume bdbserver type protocol/server option

Hi, I'm experiencing the following problem when runnig dovecot-1.0-test set up to authenticate users against openldap, while the corresponding setup with dovecot-0.99.11 works fine : . my platform : FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p1 . dovecot version : dovecot-1.0-test57 . openldap version : openldap-2.1.27 - Description : When I talk IMAP to the dovecot server, I can connect on port 143 and

Hi list, I'm getting stuck at the replication part for my BDC. Could someone familiar with OpenLDAP replication shed some light? I'm sure that password is correct Thanks for taking a look at! 1. slapd.conf (master) # $OpenLDAP: pkg/ldap/servers/slapd/slapd.conf,v 1.23.2.8 2003/05/24 23:19:14 kurt Exp $ # # See slapd.conf(5) for details on configuration options. # # include

Hi all, (i'am beginner) i have samba 3.0.7 and ldap 2.1.30-3 installed on linux debian sarge My users account are stored in ldap (ou=people,dc=alsace,dc=iufm,dc=fr) I used idealx smbldaptools .0.8.5 to : - populate LDAP (account administrator is created, id administrator gives " uid=0(Administrator) gid=512(Domain Admins) groupes=512(Domain Admins)" - add my machine accoun (named