----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "William Jojo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 9:24 AM Subject: Re: [Samba] Account Unknown for users with Samba 3.0.11/14
> Quoting William Jojo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > From: James Cort > >> All the documentation I can find online seems to be geared towards > >> getting the system up and running properly in the first place with > >> minimal requirement of understanding of how it all hangs together - if > >> someone did that in the past and made a mistake, it seems particularly > >> tough to figure out what they did wrong and, more importantly, how to > >> fix it without causing downtime. > >> > >> Can anyone point me in the right direction? > >> > > > > Well, since this system doesn't have local files can you use secldapclntd? > > This will solve your local user problem (which is what I was driving at > > :-) ) by pointing to LDAP and making the users appear local. > > I've already got Unix user logons working through LDAP and all the > relevant configuration in nsswitch: > > cronus james # touch test_JAMES > cronus james # chown james:u4ea test_JAMES > cronus james # ls -ail > total 16 > 166146660 drwxrwxr-x 2 james u4ea 23 Jan 9 08:23 . > 128 drwxr-xr-x 39 root root 4096 Jan 9 05:46 .. > 166146661 -rw-rw-r-- 1 james u4ea 0 Jan 9 08:23 test_JAMES > cronus james # grep james: /etc/passwd > cronus james # > > > Isn't secldapclntd AIX-specific? Everything I can find suggests it is. > This is Gentoo Linux. > Apologies....I've been working on several other AIX specific issues and mistakenly thought your's was AIX too... :-| > > There's also > > the possbility of WINBIND depending on how you want to approach the users. > > Ah - now there's a possibility. On the server that works, I can see > winbind is running. The absence of entries in the LDAP database > suggests that it's using local files - but I can't find which local > files it uses. > > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
