On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Randy Rue <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All. > > Been trying without avail to make idmap work with my AD so I can get "real" > UID/GID for SSH logins on a CentOS_6 box. Have heard from several sources > that idmap has seen some serious changes since 3.5 and decided to roll back > from the "stock" 3.5 that comes with CentOS_6 to 3.4.8. I'd like to see if > it has the same problems.
Save yourself some grief. Either go to www.samba.org for a more recent version, or look at: https://github.com/nkadel/samba-3.6.4-srpm for some useful and very buildable tools for a more recent release. > > Installed a clean build of CentOS_6.2. Stopped the samba service, removed > the package using yum and excluded samba* from yum updates in /etc/yum.conf. > > Downloaded and extracted the 3.4.8 tarball. > > cd into samba-3.../source3 and ran: > > the autoconfig.sh script > ./configure > make > make install > > copied the smb.init script from the packaging/RHEL/setup folder to > /etc/init.d and made it executable > chkconfig --add smb > chkconfig smb on > > > service smb start fails. Tries to start both smbd and nmbd and both fail. > > First I get errors about libraries. > copied the libtalloc.so.1 file from /usr/local/samba/lib to /usr/lib64 > fixed that one > > Then I get errors about not finding the binaries > linked /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd and nmbd to /sbin and fixed that one > This feels like a hack. I also tried adding /usr/local/samba/sbin to the > path. Also a hack but made no difference. > > > Now if I try service smb start (or restart) I get failures from the init > script. > > Or I can try smbd directly and I get no response (it appears to start) but > "ps" shows that it didn't start. > > I've turned debug level and log level up to 3 in smb.conf (tried both > arguments) but I get nothing in /var/log/syslog and nothing in any file in > /var/log/samba when I try to start it. > > Forgive the anecdotal tone of the above, I'm working mostly from memory and > have probably garbled a path or file name. Then again, I've been through > these steps six or more times now. > > Am I missing something obvious? > > Hope to hear from you, > > Randy > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
