On Monday 14 March 2005 07:23, John Zakhar wrote: > Good Morning Folks. > > I have a reoccurring error here when trying to join a Windows XP SP2 > workstation to a Samba domain (accounts stored in LDAP) The error is > "The user name cannot be found" > > Our LDAP directory looks like this > > dc=na > ~ o=ourdomain > ~ ou=Groups > ~ ou=Staff > ~ ou=Computers
With this directory configuration the /etc/ldap.conf file needs to have: nss_base_passwd: o=ourdomain,dc=na?sub - John T. > > My problem at the moment is all the windows clients are using pGina to > login to the windows workstations, > and modifying the LDAP directories is really less than desirable as we > have several fail over servers (replication etc..) > Mail and all user SSH logins depend on that structure. It would be a > VERY large task on my part to change the structure, > however I need a solution as pGina is no longer something we can > continue to use. pam_ldap along with nsswitch is in place and working > just fine for ldap > > The user accounts are all stored in ou=Staff, and during the joining > process the machine account is created in ou=Computers via the IDEALX > smbldap scripts. > According to the trace I am sending with this email the root user is > round and authorized so what gives ? This Winblows machine was patched > to current yesterday. > > Samba versions: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpm -qa |grep samba > samba-common-3.0.10-1.fc2 > samba-3.0.10-1.fc2 > samba-client-3.0.10-1.fc2 > > Any advice or thoughts would be much appreciated. -- 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