On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 09:43 -0600, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > Okay, I'll keep asking questions, until I word one in a way that > someone will answer. :) > > i'm trying to get Samba setup. I've done this before, and it has > never given me this much trouble. > In short, it seems to be insisting that the user be in smbpasswd > (I've not experienced this before). > > If the user is in smbpasswd, all seems well. If not, even though they > exist on the server (via ldap + kerberos), I get a user not found error. > On the last set of servers I did this on, even ones who authenticate > via ldap, I never did anything special to samba to get it to work. > But I've not been so lucky this time. > > The setup: > > Server: IBM AIX 5.2 > Samba 3.0.14a > > Authentication: LDAP > Security: Kerberos > > The user entry in /etc/security/user: > <user name> > SYSTEM = "KRB5files" > > smb.conf (in a simple form) > > [global] > workgroup = WIN > log level = 5 auth > log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log > username map = /usr/local/samba/lib/smbusers > > [Homes] > comment = User home directories > guest ok = no > read only = No > > I need the username map because the user names do not match between > the windows clients & the samba server. So I need to map the translation. > > > When I try to access the system, I get an unknown user error. > > The ONLY thing I need samba to do is provide shares (not shown above) > to windows users. Nothing else. > If, I add a user to samba with smbpasswd ..... then the users can > access the shares. If not, they can't. > I also, in the past have not had a server prompt me for passwords to > access shares. > I'm missing something really obvious. > I'd really appreciate some assistance on this one.
There is a terribly good howto: http://www.idealx.org/prj/samba/smbldap-howto.en.html -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The technology that is Stronger, Better, Faster: Linux Use Debian GNU/Linux, its a bazaar thing.
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