[Samba] LDAP Examples

jeff sacksteder · External Since: Mar 23, 2009 Posts: 3

I'm struggling with trying to create a unified, ldap-backed for my
home network. I have an existing directory that handles my posix
logins correctly and I'm able to auth smb users against those
accounts, but I'm not able to join any machines to the directory. It
would be profoundly helpful to see a ldif dump of a working
configuration. Surely others have created similar setups at home
before.
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Miguel Medalha · External Since: Jan 25, 2009 Posts: 26

> Actually never mind. Just found it at
> http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/passdb.html
> in table Table 11.3.
>
> I would suggest starting there with figuring out LDAP and Samba.
>
>

Yes. Over the years, I also discovered that searching for information
and collecting useful bits of knowledge from here and there and putting
them together is actually much better than bitching around and
complaining that things are not as they should be.

I was able to install a few production servers with Samba and LDAP just
by actually reading the information provided both in Samba How-To and
Samba by Example. Amazing, uh?
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John H Terpstra · External Since: Feb 02, 2005 Posts: 103

On 10/31/2009 03:22 PM, Miguel Medalha wrote:
>
>> Actually never mind. Just found it at
>> http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/passdb.html
>> in table Table 11.3.
>>
>> I would suggest starting there with figuring out LDAP and Samba.
>>
>>
>
> Yes. Over the years, I also discovered that searching for information
> and collecting useful bits of knowledge from here and there and
> putting them together is actually much better than bitching around and
> complaining that things are not as they should be.
>
> I was able to install a few production servers with Samba and LDAP
> just by actually reading the information provided both in Samba How-To
> and Samba by Example. Amazing, uh?

I am delighted to see that my efforts at documentation have not been
wasted and that someone actually has gained advantage from them. It
would be even better to see contributions from those who gained any
benefit in the form of updates and additions that will make the
Samba3-HOWTO and Samba3-ByExample more valuable and useful.

I am convinced that you can contribute some observations or things
learned that others would find valuable. Please, please do contribute
to the Samba documentation.

Cheers,
John Terpstra
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Miguel Medalha · External Since: Jan 25, 2009 Posts: 26

I think that you will find this very helpful:

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/happy.html

It deals with the configuration of Samba with a LDAP backend.
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Miguel Medalha · External Since: Jan 25, 2009 Posts: 26

> Wow. Your an ass. Thanks for your lack of usefulness.
>
>

Ok. Then, excuse me for having pointed to the document you now quoted.
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Zane C.B. · External Since: Nov 01, 2009 Posts: 1

On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:36:13 -0500
"Zane C. B." <vvelox.TakeThisOut@vvelox.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:17:09 +0000
> Miguel Medalha <miguelmedalha.TakeThisOut@sapo.pt> wrote:
>
> > I think that you will find this very helpful:
> >
> > http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/happy.html
> >
> > It deals with the configuration of Samba with a LDAP backend.
>
> Meh. Unfortunately like lots of other stuff covering Samba and LDAP,
> a lot is left out. I've yet to see any thing that counts as a decent
> breakdown of what the various attributes are for and etc yet.
>
> One issue I've run across recently is there is no documentation on
> doing simple things with Samba and LDAP, such as updating the
> password, yes you can properly set the hash values in the two
> attribute Samba wants, but then it just considers them as being
> expired.

Actually never mind. Just found it at
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/passdb.html
in table Table 11.3.

I would suggest starting there with figuring out LDAP and Samba.
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