Hi Paul,
Thanks for your insights. I have corrected my add_posix_machine function. It should work fine.
Ok. Maybe I was confused to ask my original question because my reason for starting this conversation is because I got a connection everytime I try to connect to the server. Maybe my passwd backend is pointing to a slow ldap master in the network. I don't have referrals since all my data is in the same tree of the ldap master. I did not dedicate any of the sort (eg. ou=people,dc=domain) to other ldap slaves.
The reason is that since my sambasrv is also a ldap slave and contain all the entries, I wanted to point to itself (sambasrv) rather than the slow ldap master (ldapsrv) in the network to see whether the connection process can be hastened.
However due to my limit knowledge, I am afraid that if I do that I will updated data in the ldap slave (sambasrv) and not the master ldapsrv. Currently my master ldapsrv is replicating to a few ldap slaves beside sambasrv. I wonder is it only when I am trying to join machines to the domain that I need to point to the ldap master? If that is so, I can point the passwd backend locally (sambasrv) and when I need to add machines, I point the passwd backend to the master ldap master. Tricky process but I just want to increase the performance of the connection. My ldap master (ldapsrv) is running on a very slow machine. Pentium 1?
2nd question: - Can I turn off add user scripts option as I don't want any connection to the samba server to create a new user on the server?
Thanks a lot for your input. Also Stephanie's.
adrian
Paul Gienger wrote:
Adrian Chow wrote:
This sounds exactly like what I was seeing. The first time it would create the posix user, but fail looking for it to modify to add the samba objectClass and attributes. The second time you try to create it, the posix info is there, and it can find it so it proceeds to modify it for samba use. I found this was happening in my situation because the replication wasn't happening fast enough. I modified my sub add_posix_machine function to have a wait at the end:Hi Paul,
thanks for the reply. 2 questions:-
1. In the smbldap-useradd.pl file, there are lines that are commented out. SInce my add machine script is only with "-w", and my with_smbpasswd variable in the smbldap_conf is =0, i found that it will only create a posix account on the ldap. I don't see it creating the samba portion in the ldap. Does it do it automatically? My ldap shows that the samba portion is done automatically. [However I think I have to join the domain 2 times for each machine.... don't know why the first time it joins it fails.. The second time succeeds.]
sleep(5);
right before the function ends. This gave the ldif data time to come from our remote master server.
2. Can I know what happens if my refferals is not done properly and I point my passwd backend to the ldap slave server? Does it have an effect only when a machine joins the domain?That I couldn't tell you for sure since our referrals have been working since before samba had anything to do with LDAP. I would guess that you wouldn't be able to join at all, no matter how many times you try. The add/modify request would never make it up to the master LDAP server.
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