[K12OSN] OT - Upgrading LDAP entries from 2.2.7 for Samba 3 not happening

[Eric Harrison]

On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 10:29, jamie wrote:
> Sorry to post this to this list, but I got no response from the samba list
> and kids come back to school on Monday!
> 
> I thought maybe some of you might have gone through this.
> 
> We have been using samba 2.2.7 for awhile now with ldap no problem. We are
> ready to move to Samba 3 though, and this is where the trouble begins.
> We do not have a domain set up. We have a few samba boxes and they just use
> the ldap servers to get their passwords from. (no roaming desktops or
> anything like that.)

A quick-and-dirty fix is to use the compatibility mode for ldap. That
way you do not have to modify your LDAP server. In smb.conf, change:

	passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://localhost/,guest

to

	passdb backend = ldapsam_compat:ldap://localhost/,guest


-Eric
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