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What do you want from me? Do you want to teach me the principles of admin's work? In this case, feel free to open a new thread!!!
Holger
Tony Earnshaw wrote: | man, 25.04.2005 kl. 17.48 skrev Holger Wesser: | | |>short question: I try to add a local group via the NT-Usermanager |>("usrmgr.exe"), but everytime I get a "Access denied". Adding a global |>group works. I'm logged on as "Administrator". I'm running Samba 3.0.14a |>on Debian Sarge (testing) with the smbldap-tools (v0.8.8). |> |>What could I have done wrong? | | | Basically using LDAP and the smbldap-tools (v0.8.8) knowing what they | do, how they do it or having read through *all* the official Samba | documentation and done everything in it. Had you done so (judging that | tens of thousands have got it to work before you) it would work for you. | | That having been said (my bounden duty to the Samba team), I have always | contended and still contend that the idealx smbldap-tools (whichever | version whatever) are UTTERLY USELESS to an LDAP pro who already has an | LDAP DSA running with a completely different DIT to which the idealx and | Samba people might decree. | | However, the good news is, that whichever sysadmin: | | a: first understands LDAP (at least several months experience for any | other use than Samba whatsoever) | b: second has had a concentrated look at Samba 3 utils and daemons; | c: third has a reasonable experience in awk, shell and sed scripting | (each of awk and sed one can teach oneself in a weekend, shell costs one | years, learn it first) | | doesn't need the idealx tools. | | Not needing the idealx tools means that the sysadmin is free to choose | his own LDAP DIT as he/she has already implemented it (long before | having started with Samba 3). The Samba daemons and utils of all kinds | do not need the idealx tools, they work perfectly without them. They | (the Samba daemons and uitils) were implemented by prophets of the true | way. idealx has to drag itself, groaning, to the heights that these | magnificent tools reached some time ago. | | The Samba people don't need teaching, the idealx people need training in | what LDAP is. They seem to be utterly ignorant, as to that extent. | | No, John H. T. I have not contacted the idealx people. That would be | useless. There are several thousand others besides me who find idealx's | method perfect, then there's me that doesn't. The difference is, that I | already had my DIT (multiple user bases, multiple group bases and much | more. Samba isn't there for LDAP, LDAP is there for Samba) and had to | make it work with Samba, not the other way around. So I can't use the | "on the fly" Samba scripts, I have to do things by hand. No skin off my | nose. | | --Tonni |
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