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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

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;

Two quick questions: 1. For a samba server what backend would produce the best performance with samba. ldbm or bdb? 2. What permissions should be on the profiles folder and the subsequent users folders? /data/profiles /date/profiles/user1 /date/profiles/user2 Thanks for your time Dan

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 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

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

Well, I have tried really hard to get any of the idmaps to work--in that, idmap_ads, idmap_rid, and I have tried to use idmap stroage in ldap with padl (nss_ldap) too, but I have had no luck. If I enable pam in /usr/lib/security/methods.cfg or nss_ldap, I cannot log into the system anymore. If I enable pam in /etc/pam.conf and use in /etc/security/users SYSTEM = "WINBINd or WINBIND[UNAVAIL]

Hi, I have configured my machine to run samba and LDAP as the PDC. But whenever i enter the passdb backend: ldapsam:ldap://localhost/ on my smb.conf, i see from my SWAT that smdb is not running and i cannot join the domain. Below are my smb.conf and slapd.conf files smb.conf # Samba config file created using SWAT # from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) # Date: 2009/01/22 16:01:58 [global] workgroup =

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

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

Dear List, I have CentOS 5.5 64bit (fully updated) , Samba3 3.5.5-43.el5 (SerNET Samba) , openldap-2.3.43-12.el5_5.2 , nss_ldap-253-25.el5 . My Problem is , If I login to the domain and run a program from the Samba3 Server it's slow , if I login from this same machine but this time to the local account, and then I go to the Samba3 server specify domain admin password when asked for it(only

I'm trying to setup a samba PDC/BDC with disconnected auth. and am stuck at step one because I can't get smbldap-tools to work right. First when I do a smbldap-useradd.pl -a test, it works fine. ldapsearch shows the entry properly. Then I try smbldap-usershow.pl or smbldap-userdel.pl or any other one for that matter and they all fail with a "user test does not exist"! Also if I

Dear all I have a system with samba PDC with LDAP, samba version being 3.0.21 and openLDAP version 2.2.13 i have another linux system with samba version being 3.0.10 which is a member server to samba pdc. i have configured nss_ldap, and ldap.conf configured on the member server pointing to my ldap server on samba pdc The samba PDC LDAP is configured for simple bind . 1 )i have been getting the

Hi there, this is my config, I have a CentOS 5.3 x86_64 full updated with Xen enabled with Samba 3.5.4 sernet RPMs. I have a virtual machine running Windows 2008 R2 Foundation running full virtualized on the same machine. When i tried to join the Windows 2008 to the domain i get this message: The following error ocurred attempting to join the domain "MYDOMAIN": A device attached

Hi guys, I am trying to migrate my NT 4 users to samba and these are the steps that I used for installing samba. BerkeleyDB ../dist/configure --prefix=/usr make make install MIT Kerberos ./configure --prefix=/usr make make install make check OpenSSL ./config --openssldir=/usr make make install Cyrus SASL cd cyrus-sasl-2.1.19 ./configure --prefix=/usr

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

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

Dear List, I have CentOS 5.5 64bit (fully updated) , Samba3 3.5.5-43.el5 (SerNET Samba) , openldap-2.3.43-12.el5_5.2 , nss_ldap-253-25.el5 . My Problem is , If I login to the domain and run a program from the Samba3 Server it's slow , if I login from this same machine but this time to the local account, and then I go to the Samba3 server specify domain admin password when asked for it(only

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! I'm geting errormessage, when I start sldap on commandoline: amd:/usr/lib/openldap # /usr/lib/openldap/slapd /etc/openldap/schema/samba.schema: line 432: AttributeType not found: "gidNumber" I think, I must create a new group with a gid. But is the groupname sambaGroupMapping? my samba.schema-line 432:(MUST...): ## ## Group mapping info ## objectclass (