On Sunday 06 February 2005 09:55, Tony Earnshaw wrote: > Adam Tauno Williams: > > [...] > > > My guess: the behaviour of 3.0.11 is more correct, and something is > > clearly wrong with your DSA - the client cannot read the rootDSE. > > Possibly you've got an ACL doing something you don't intend; it doesn't > > look like a Samba problem. The rootDSE is used to determine features > > supported by the DSA, included the password-modify extended operation. > > Me too. I've just (couple of weeks) been playing with and implementing > Samba (3.0.7 and 3.0.9). High school has to integrate a Windows > 2000/collection into an already established Linux network, on the basis of > OL 2.2.17. > > What's surprised me, is the utter correlation between what happens and the > Samba crew documentation. However, the only LDAP documentation that I've > found is the CTI, University of Navarra stuff, and whilst helpful, this is > directly misleading in many cases and following it blindly can lead to > misconfigured systems (in general, most HOWTOs suck, if one follows them > literally).
The Samba-HOWTO-Collection is literally intended to be correct and capable of being followed literally! Please document what sucks and help us to improve our documentation. I encourage you to file a bug report with details of what needs to be fixed. You can file a bug report on https://bugzilla.samba.org - John T. > > In fact, the ldapsam backend is phantastik; if correctly configured it can > do nothing wrong and the pdbedit (always use rather than smbpasswd) is an > eye-opener. > > Bottom line is, that to run the ldapsam backend with Samba, one has to be > an (open)LDAP guru, long before one tries to run ldapsam. To which extent > kalamazoo helped me, as I've told you before, no end. Keep posting the > links to the unwashed ;) > > --Tonni > > -- > mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.billy.demon.nl -- John H Terpstra Samba-Team Member Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668 Author: The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556 Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216 Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971 Other books in production. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba