[Fedora-directory-users] Samba + FDS Problem adding Administrator account "Username not found"

[Gary Martin]

On Jan 10, 2008 5:01 AM, Jonathan Barber <j.barber at dundee.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 03:08:59PM -0500, Gary Martin wrote:
> > I am following the instructions in the Howto:Samba documentation on
> > the FDS Wiki site.  When I go to edit the Administrator account using
> > the following command:
>
> [snip]
>
> > # Administrator, People, test.com
> > dn: uid=Administrator,ou=People,dc=test,dc=com
> > uid: Administrator
> > cn: Samba Admin
> > givenName: Samba
> > sn: Admin
> > mail: Administrator at test.com
> > objectClass: person
> > objectClass: organizationalPerson
> > objectClass: inetOrgPerson
> > objectClass: posixAccount
> > objectClass: top
> > loginShell: /bin/bash
> > uidNumber: 0
> > gidNumber: 0
> > homeDirectory: /root
> > gecos: Samba Admin
>
> Did you add this user with smbpasswd?
Yes
> AFAIK it should have the
> sambaSamAccount objectclass with the various attributes that samba
> creates (which is dependant upon your version of samba).
I am using FC6 with Samba version 3.0.24-11.
>
> The HOWTO specifies using the command:
> $ smbpasswd -a Administrator -w<ldap-admin-password>
This is the command I used.
>
> The ldap filter samba uses (3.0.25 at least) is of the form:
> (&(uid=USERNAME)(objectClass=sambaSamAccount))
>
> So if you haven't added the user via samba (or added the attributes
> manually) the filter won't match and samba won't find the user.
How do I add these manually since samba did not do it for me.
>
> Cheers.