The setup is as follows. We have an LDAP server which we use only for *nix authentication. The Windows authentication is held on everyone's local PC. We have samba shares located on Server1. Server1 currently has all samba passwords located locally. We've since integrated LDAP to Server1 for ssh auth and what not, but would like to do the same for Samba.

So the problem is this. Our current LDAP directory did not have the samba.schema file attached/included. Now we must activate the plugin and a user must resync their password when we do so. I'm trying to circumvent this, and I think a previous reply to run "pdbedit --import=smbpasswd:/etc/samba/smbpasswd --export=ldapsam:ldap://ldapserver " may work I will try that out. What I want to do is sync the local samba accounts on Server1 to my LDAP. We have several servers and only 1 or 2 that use samba shares, so we want to limit access, but don't want 100+ people needing to resync their passwords at our desks when we activate the samba plugin.

adrian sender wrote:
I thought I would just add my two cents here; I am not sure I completely 
understand your problem; logs are useful to help . You mentioned you are having 
issues with users changing passwords, I am not sure if your clients are windows 
or not, or a yast issue - but common problem if users cannot change passwords 
from windows is openldap acl's

I have not used yast before, but what tools are you using to manage 
samba/openldap accounts with - ie smbldap-tools (maybe they need to be checked 
to)

So you would have something like this in smb.conf ldap admin "dn = 
cn=Manager,dc=gomer,dc=mdah,dc=state,dc=ms,dc=us" substitute "sambaadmin" or "syncuser" 
below with 'Manager" (depends on openldap version as well)

Samba Openldap acl's
access to attrs=userPassword
        by self write
        by dn="cn=sambaadmin,dc=samba,dc=org" write
        by dn="cn=syncuser,dc=samba,dc=org" read
        by * auth

access to attrs=sambaLMPassword,sambaNTPassword
        by dn="cn=sambaadmin,dc=samba,dc=org" write
        by dn="cn=syncuser,dc=samba,dc=org" read

access to *
        by dn="cn=sambaadmin,dc=samba,dc=org" write
        by dn="cn=syncuser,dc=samba,dc=org" read
        by * read

It would be best to explain your setup a little more clear and some samba / openldap logs may give us some more info if this or the below reply do not help. As mentioned Samba 3 by Example should answer most of your questions / queries
Regards,

Adrian Sender

Subject: Re: [Samba] Convert existing Samba DB to LDAP
CC: samba@lists.samba.org
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:23:35 -0600
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

you'll need to config samba to use your LDAP backend. in smb.conf you'll need: passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://gomer.mdah.state.ms.us
  ldap suffix = dc=gomer,dc=mdah,dc=state,dc=ms,dc=us
  ldap machine suffix = ou=People
  ldap user suffix = ou=People
  ldap group suffix = ou=Group
  ldap idmap suffix = ou=Idmap
  ldap admin dn = cn=Manager,dc=gomer,dc=mdah,dc=state,dc=ms,dc=us
  idmap backend = ldap:ldap://gomer.mdah.state.ms.us
  ldap passwd sync = yes
   idmap uid = 10000-20000
   idmap gid = 10000-20000
   winbind separator = +
   template homedir = /home/winnt/%D/%U
   template shell = /bin/bash
   winbind use default domain = false
   winbind offline logon = false
winbind enum users = yes
winbind enum groups = yes
and you can load your smbpasswd/tdbsam users with: pdbedit --import=smbpasswd:/etc/samba/smbpasswd --export=ldapsam:ldap://gomer.mdah.state.ms.us and because the ldap passwd sync = yes, when your users do ctrl alt del and click on change password, it should change it in LDAP for their unix shell acct and their samba password that is in their LDAP dn. read chapter 5 of the Samba-3 By Example PDF, it kind of explains everything. Eric Bouliane wrote:
We currently have an OpenLDAP server with many nodes authenticating to it for various things. We have an existing server that is now using LDAP to authenticate, but would like to have Samba in turn authenticate to it. We've configured the smb.conf file accordingly and can get this working.

Our dilemma is in adding the "Manage samba account parameters" plug-in via the Yast User/Group modification. When doing this and attempting to finish editing existing users, it errors out with "Change the passwordto create the Samba account". We would like to prevent having all of our LDAP users come to our desks to change the password individually, is there a way to globally set this and use either existing passwords within the samba/secrets.tdb file or those set within LDAP already?

Cheers.

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