On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Alex Crow <[email protected]> wrote: > On 18/01/11 21:08, Jon Detert wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Gaiseric Vandal >> <[email protected]> wrote:
-- snip -- >>> net idmap secret MYDOMAIN xxxx >>> net idmap secret alloc xxxx > > You do *not* need this is the you are not using explicit idmap alloc, just > the default idmap range. idmap alloc is apparently not working. I _am_ specifying ranges via 'idmap uid' and 'idmap gid'. I assume that's different than what you meant by 'default idmap range'. >> In any case, I tried the above, and got the same error for both command : >> >> "The only currently supported backend is LDAP" >> >> My smb.conf has a line expressly saying "idmap backend = >> ldap:ldap://localhost";. Does smbd have to be running before running >> the 'net idmap' commands? If so, I'm screwed, cuz now that I fixed >> the 'out=IDmap' typo, smbd dies immediately after trying to start it. > > You should leave the config as is. > > smbd really should not die. Are you sure smbd is not still running? Did you > join your own domain on the PDC (eg net rpc join -S localhost)? yes, I'm sure. 'ps -ef | grep mbd' shows just the nmbd process, not any smbd process. Also, the log.smbd ends with 'ERROR: failed to setup guest info.'. No, I did not join my own domain. Should I have? > I think you need to use the smbldap-tools. Once configured correctly they > will prepopulate your LDAP tree for for you. There should be packages in the > repos for most distros. I'll look into that. Centos doesn't have smbldap-tools in it's official repos. I imagine that someone has made rpms, though, for centos. Thanks, Jon -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
