[Samba] Creating domain users in AD from Linux

2004-08-20 Thread Massimiliano Mirra
Here are my findings. Keywords for Google and for those who, like me, did not find useful references: create user domain ldap active directory ad linux rpcclient net ads rpc account enable enabled login bind. Background: we're migrating users from AD to OpenLDAP; for a period the two have to

[Samba] Setting AD password from Linux

2004-08-18 Thread Massimiliano Mirra
I'm migrating an AD service over to OpenLDAP. There will be a transitional period where logins will still be served by AD, but address book/mail/etc. will be authenticated against OpenLDAP, so I'd like to provide the AD admins with a way of creating users in OpenLDAP and having the change

Re: [Samba] Profiles and automatic drive mappings

2002-10-15 Thread Massimiliano Mirra
The 2000 machines also write a profile dirctory in that share, and copy the entire desktop contents to it each time the user logs off. For most of the users, this isn't a problem, but some users have a gig of video files on their desktop, and it writing all that crap to the sever is not

[Samba] obtaining domain sid

2002-10-13 Thread Massimiliano Mirra
I've read on usenet about using `smbpasswd -S' from the latest 2_2 to get the MACHINE.SID of an existing PDC into the secrets.tdb of a soon-to-become BDC. I've also noticed `net setlocalsid SID' in alpha20. Is there any way to do the same on alpha18? (I'm staying with alpha18 for now because,

Re: [Samba] obtaining domain sid

2002-10-13 Thread Massimiliano Mirra
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 02:17:39PM +0200, Massimiliano Mirra wrote: (I'm staying with alpha18 for now because, for some reason, with alpha20 the PDC just vanishes from the domain.) I solved this, and in case someone else had the same problem, here's the fix: security = domain

[Samba] Same configs, different results

2002-10-11 Thread Massimiliano Mirra
I am configuring two identical PDCs so that, if one goes down, the other can start to serve logins. The first PDC, a Debian 3.0 with Samba 2.999+3.0cvs20020723-1, works fine. The second PDC, that I bring up after killing manually smbd and nmbd on the first one, is a Red Hat 7.3 with Samba

[Samba] multiple alternative LDAP backends

2002-10-10 Thread Massimiliano Mirra
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