[Samba] Samba + ldap documentation

2006-08-23 Thread updatemyself .
Hai All, can anyone give me a proper documentation to do samba + ldap PDC in my environment 50% of machine is in windows and 50% in redhat linux.. winXP and RHEL3 and RHEL4 if anyone can give a proper documentation ... that will be a grate help.. thank you in advance jerrynikky. -- To

Re:[Samba] Samba + ldap documentation

2006-08-23 Thread Jean-Michel Caricand
Hai All, can anyone give me a proper documentation to do samba + ldap PDC in my environment 50% of machine is in windows and 50% in redhat linux.. winXP and RHEL3 and RHEL4 if anyone can give a proper documentation ... that will be a grate help.. thank you in advance jerrynikky. --

Re: [Samba] Samba + ldap documentation

2006-08-23 Thread Matt Richardson
Jean-Michel Caricand wrote: Hai All, can anyone give me a proper documentation to do samba + ldap PDC in my environment 50% of machine is in windows and 50% in redhat linux.. winXP and RHEL3 and RHEL4 if anyone can give a proper documentation ... that will be a grate help.. thank you in

Re: [Samba] Samba/LDAP documentation

2005-02-13 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 15:38 -0700, John H Terpstra wrote: Interestingly enough, I used Gerry Carter's LDAP book which deals with LDAP first and then how to integrate samba (of course, this was 2.2 when book was published) which is clearly the approach that you and I have taken. Neither

Re: [Samba] Samba/LDAP documentation

2005-02-13 Thread Tony Earnshaw
John H Terpstra: The Samba-HOWTO-Collection and Samba-Guide documentation has worked for many people, but I am quick to admit that it can be significantly improved. There is little benefit in my continuously pounding this list with requests for patches and updates - even though we have

Re: [Samba] Samba/LDAP documentation

2005-02-13 Thread Tony Earnshaw
John H Terpstra: [...] FYI. I run Samba training classes around the world. I use SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 and SuSE Linux 9.2 Professional to host Samba. All classes are run using OpenLDAP 2.2 and the Idealx scripts. I have deployed Samba-3 and OpenLDAP 2.2.x in several large sites -

Re: [Samba] Samba/LDAP documentation

2005-02-13 Thread Tony Earnshaw
Craig White to JHT: [...] You are a kind, warm and generous person and the thought that I might have said anything that wounds you bothers me. Any criticism that I may have offered was only offered to make the documentation better. Seconded. That's obvious from the official HOWTO, which is

Re: [Samba] Samba/LDAP documentation

2005-02-13 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 16:16 +0100, Tony Earnshaw wrote: John H Terpstra: [...] FYI. I run Samba training classes around the world. I use SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 and SuSE Linux 9.2 Professional to host Samba. All classes are run using OpenLDAP 2.2 and the Idealx scripts. I

Re: [Samba] Samba/LDAP documentation

2005-02-13 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
The problem that apparently both Tonni and I had was coming to terms with the net group map command. It mucked with the DSA attributes of 'displayName' 'sambaSID' 'objectclass' - I'm confused by this statement. The attributes displayName and sambaSID are not relevant to a POSIX group, so the

Re: [Samba] Samba/LDAP documentation

2005-02-13 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 14:13 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: The problem that apparently both Tonni and I had was coming to terms with the net group map command. It mucked with the DSA attributes of 'displayName' 'sambaSID' 'objectclass' - I'm confused by this statement. The attributes

Re: [Samba] Samba/LDAP documentation

2005-02-13 Thread Tony Earnshaw
Craig White: [...] Please bear in mind that Samba interfaces between MS Windows and UNIX-like platforms. The issues we are touching on here are deeper than the cosmetics of user names and group names. To change the behaviour will require changes deep inside the smbd source code to

Re: [Samba] Samba/LDAP documentation

2005-02-13 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 22:06 +0100, Tony Earnshaw wrote: Craig White: My Win XP prof machine accepts any RID whatsoever for Administrator. Maybe a Win 2000 machine wouldn't. Moreover, using USRMGR/SRVMGR it issues out-of-context RIDS (e.g. 513 for a computer). It coexists with and accepts

Re: [Samba] Samba/LDAP documentation

2005-02-13 Thread John H Terpstra
On Sunday 13 February 2005 07:41, Tony Earnshaw wrote: Craig White to JHT: [...] You are a kind, warm and generous person and the thought that I might have said anything that wounds you bothers me. Any criticism that I may have offered was only offered to make the documentation better.

[Samba] Samba/LDAP documentation

2005-02-12 Thread Tony Earnshaw
List, documenters; I'd like to exchange notes about the official Samba 3 LDAP doco. I'd like to do this off list, since doing it on list would simply confuse and confound users wit perfectly working systems. Background: Me, Samba relative newbie, though I can get *everything* Samba-orientated

Re: [Samba] Samba/LDAP documentation

2005-02-12 Thread John H Terpstra
Tonni, Folks, The Samba-HOWTO-Collection and Samba-Guide documentation has worked for many people, but I am quick to admit that it can be significantly improved. There is little benefit in my continuously pounding this list with requests for patches and updates - even though we have

Re: [Samba] Samba/LDAP documentation

2005-02-12 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 19:18 +0100, Tony Earnshaw wrote: List, documenters; I'd like to exchange notes about the official Samba 3 LDAP doco. I'd like to do this off list, since doing it on list would simply confuse and confound users wit perfectly working systems. Background: Me,

Re: [Samba] Samba/LDAP documentation

2005-02-12 Thread John H Terpstra
On Saturday 12 February 2005 14:39, Craig White wrote: I am pretty much in agreement with your assessments, both in this message and on previous messages but it's probably an exaggeration to call the HOWTO with respect to groups as worthless. What I find that I have issue with - an apparently