[expert] Samba LDAP PDC an answer, not a question

[Jim C]

So I've been racking my brains over why my Samba-LDAP PDC wont add a 
machine account automatically like it is supposed to. If I add the 
machine by hand there is no problem with joining the domain.  So what's 
up?  I try to log on and I don't get any error codes that pertain to 
adding a user showing up in the logs.  In addition Samba does not want 
to execute the 'add user script' at all even if I use a custom script.
Until today I had thought the problem might have to do with my Perl 
libraries.  BUZZZZ! Wrong answer!

Turns out that if you have the ldap port set incorrectly in 
/etc/smb.conf you can only join the domain if the user has already been 
added.  Reason being that Samba refuses to execute the 'add user 
script'.  I found this very weird as I would have expected that no 
joining the domain at all would have been possible under these conditions.



Jim C.



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