On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Marco Ciampa <ciam...@libero.it> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 04:34:05AM +0100, Marco Ciampa wrote: >> Sorry for (I'm shure) my stupid question (and my bad english)... >> >> If this is not the right place to post this kind of question forgive me >> and please point me to the right mailinglist. >> >> I've a Samba 3 that works with an openldap server as a sole domain >> controller. >> >> I used to use the Microsoft usermanager. >> After a general migration/upgrate I am not able to create new users anymore. >> I can do it with the smbldap-tools, manually only from the root user but >> if I do it through the usermanager it gives me an error. >> A net user add command done with the same adminitrator user give me this >> error: >> >> Failed to add user 'pippo' with: WERR_GENERAL_FAILURE. >> >> from the logs: >> >> [2010/12/31 04:30:44, 0] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:2197(ldapsam_add_sam_account) >> ldapsam_add_sam_account: User 'pippo' already in the base, with samba >> attributes >> >> Any hint? > > Need some other info? > > I've seen in the Internet many times asked this question so it seems a > recurring problem but with generic answers (check all your conf > data/permission/so on...) or no answer at all... > > Maybe it is a generic-catch-all error message a la Windows so it could > be fired by a hundred reasons or what? > > Sorry I am not a Samba nor LDAP expert... you see... >
I would just add the user in ldap directly. LAM is a good tool to do that and pretty easy to use. http://www.ldap-account-manager.org John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba