Coming to think of it, I actually answered something that's not really related to you question, so please just ignore my post.
On 6/11/08, Richard Foltyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/6/08, Collen Blijenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So correct me if i'm wrong, >> >> in order to use the ldap backend, you need to insert the posix users in >> ldap as well ?? >> there is no way to get it work, with the normal basic setup (passwd >> shadow group ect. files) >> >> that's odd ?! > > Actually this will work too. I have all my POSIX/Samba users in LDAP > except for the root user, since there is no point in duplicating root > in LDAP. As long as you create a samba user with smbpasswd -a root, > Samba will happily fetch the POSIX stuff from /etc/passwd. This should > work for other users as well. > > However, as others have pointed out, this totally defeats the purpose > of using LDAP in the first place. ;) > > - Richard > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
