All:

I'm running Samba 2.2.8 as a PDC, using Netscape Directory Server (don't ask :) 
for an LDAP backend. Is there any technical reason why Samba and LDAP services 
have to reside on the same server? My predecessors had a lot of trouble getting 
the two to play nicely when the services were split between two servers, to the 
point that "don't split samba and LDAP" is now the stuff of legends.

A second question: do settings in /etc/ldap.conf affect Samba's ability to talk 
to LDAP? As far as I can tell, the only purpose for /etc/ldap.conf is to 
provide a default (baseDN, bindDN, bindpw, host) for ldapsearch and related 
tools, and every single LDAP operation I can find relating to samba 
specifically names the new (baseDN and server IP) for all ldap-related 
commands; however, Samba still won't play nicely with the new LDAP server. For 
example:

Our old LDAP server runs on the same hardware as the PDC. The replacement LDAP 
server runs on different hardware.

<On the PDC>
[/etc/ldap.conf]
host 127.0.0.1
base o=mydomain
binddn uid=nosuchuser,ou=container,ou=container2,o=mydomain
bindpw password
scope sub

/opt/samba/sbin/smbldap-* explicitly set the host, baseDN, bindDN, and bindpw 
for the new LDAP server, but Samba won't talk to LDAP.
</On the PDC>

 Do I need to reconfigure /etc/ldap.conf to make Samba talk to the new LDAP 
server?

Thanks,
Ryan
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