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How can I get Openindiana built in samba to use an OpenLDAP server?

I built an OpenIndiana / NAPP-IT server to use for samba home shares. Up to now I had planned to use a KVM virtual machine to run the samba/ldap stack, then connect the vm to the ZFS volume thru ...
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Samba4: external authentication [closed]

From what I understand, Samba4 cannot use external LDAP servers. That's too bad; I have zero experience, but the thought of using OpenLDAP's back-shell and back-perl in order to authenticate against ...
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Mapping User and Group Ownership through LDAP

I am installing smb 3.5 on a CentOS 6.2 host using smbldap-tools. I've previously installed a similar configuration on RHEL4 using smb 3.0 but CentOS now uses nss-pam-ldapd and nslcd instead of ...
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Samba with remote LDAP authentication doesn`t see users properly

I'm trying to setup a samba server authenticated by a remote LDAP server, and I'm having some problems that I can't figure how to solve. I was able to make an getent passwd at samba server and I ...
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What are the benefits of using ldap with Samba?

I am curious to know what are the benefits of using LDAP with Samba? In other words, without integrating LDAP with Samba, what are the limitations of Samba?
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One established server reports “Invalid SID” for a new Samba user

We have two linux samba servers authenticating against LDAP that have been working fine for some time. Recently I added a new user to LDAP. He can log in fine to one server, but the other reports an ...
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Samba+LDAP: Minimal permissions for sambaLMPassword/sambaNTPassword?

What are the minimum permissions for the attributes sambaLMPassword/sambaNTPassword for the the LDAP administrator account so that Samba is just enabled to use it for authentication for ldapsam ...
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OpenLDAP + samba replication [closed]

I am working in a multi branch University and I was just wondering if it would be possible to build a multi site (replication) OpenLDAP server + samba replication. After some research on the web I ...
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Looking for tutorial on FreeBSD based Samba server on ZFS filesystem with OpenLDAP backend [closed]

I am looking for a tutorial for specially: FreeBSD 8.2 with ZFS as storage (this has been done) Samba as fileserver OpenLDAP as user storage I have set up a FreeBSD 8.2 with ZFS for filestorage, ...
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Password expires 45 days even though 'Password Must Change' is set to 'never' (Samba+LDAP)

Since a few months ago Samba ask each of our users to change password at log on every 45 days (the default) and I have not been able to disable it. This setup had been running for 2 years before then ...
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Computer not showing up in network (Samba and LDAP configuration)

For some reason I have not been able to pinpoint yet, going to Network on my Windows 7 computer, the Samba server does not show up. I have configured Samba with LDAP and managed to successfully ...
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samba Ldap password restriction

I'm trying to change the password for Ldap users using Samba. i'm using smbldap-tools-0.9.6 . I use the command smbldap-passwd in terminal. I can able to change the password. But i want to password ...
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setting up a samba PDC -error with testparm

I have installed a samba PDC but when I test the samba configurations file I am getting errors like these, "Invalid combination of parameters for service homes. Map system can only work if ...
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Can I manage Windows 7 machines with an open source server?

Can I manage a small office of Windows machines with an open source solution? (~15 users) (XP Pro, but will be moving to Windows 7 Pro as we get new computers over the next few months... as budget ...
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Must sambaAcctFlags have 11 characters?

Still going through my LDAP database in my search for the wicked, I noticed a lot of accounts have sambaAcctFlags equal to [U], though the Samba docs says it should have 11 characters between [ and ] ...
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Can two users share a sambaSID?

I'm doing some sanity checking on an LDAP database in preparation for a version upgrade on our LDAP server, and I came upon a very few users sharing the same sambaSID attribute. I wonder if I should ...
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SAMBA + LDAP problem

I cannot get LDAP + SAMBA working ... I changed all the important files, but it seems that Samba does not even contact LDAP server. Whenever I would like to use smbclient, it writes: ...
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OpenLDAP and Samba, can't log onto Samba share from Windows

The former jackass IT-guy that I'm taking over for had a Samba share setup on a Fedora server that uses our OpenLDAP server to authenticate users who want to log in from Windows. We recently added a ...
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Active Directory using Samba/Open LDAP for user accounts

I know this is the wrong way round... but Is it possible to use AD in front of Samba for our PC clients, so that the user accounts are in Samba/Open LDAP. Managing our fleet of Windows PC's is ...
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samba+openldap vs ad for medium size network

We are going to have an organized network with an NT user authentication and proxy server. In choosing between Active Directory and Samba Server, I wanted to choose Samba server (I do love Open Source ...
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OpenLDAP & Samba for Mac home drives

We are in the process of setting up our existing OpenLDAP (on Ubuntu) to provide authentication and MCX etc for our Macs. We are hitting a problem with our home directories - they work fine using AFP ...