[K12OSN] Anyone tried smbldap installer with Centos 5 ??

[John Lucas]

If I were deploying on a production system, I would pre-install the needed 
packages from the most suitable yum repositories (i.e. dag's "el5" if missing 
from base and extras etc.) and then run the smbldap-installer script *after* 
installing those packages in order to ensure more straightforward updates in 
future. The right place to fix this is to update the scripts, but I am not a 
perl programmer.

I think I'll peruse my yum log and make a list ...

On Wednesday 25 April 2007 13:47, Tom Astle wrote:
> These same issues cause the CentOS 4.4 not to work too.
>
> John Lucas wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 April 2007 09:02, Brian Chivers wrote:
> >> I'm about to start installing several new servers ready for the summer
> >> swap and wondered if anyone had tried the smbldap installer script with
> >> Centos 5 and if so would share any "gotchas" :-)
> >
> > Your query prompted me to try it out. I ran smbldap-installer (v3.1) on a
> > CentOS-5 virtual machine (VMware Server v1.0.2) and selected "centos44"
> > as the installation target host. I was able to get SMB-LDAP installed,
> > configured and running *but* the installation script does not work out of
> > the box. I ran into the following problems (and workarounds):
> >
> > 1. Vanilla CentOS-5 does not define the "dag" repository.
> > 	Fix: That is Dag Wieers repository: http://dag.wieers.com/
> >
> > 2. Repository has been renamed "rpmforge"
> > 	Fix: In /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo change [rpmforge] to [dag]
> >
> > 3. Still can't get several Perl modules due to version mismatches
> > 	Fix: use yum to install packages without reference to version numbers
> >
> > 4. The smbldap-tools didn't get installed. Manual installation collides
> > with perl-ldap module.
> > 	Fix: remove perl-ldap modle with yum. Use yum to get right perl-ldap and
> > then install smbldap-tools.
> >
> > The installer script used a hodge-podge of packages from the "dag"
> > repository (several old Fedora packages for instance). Dag seems to have
> > a suitable "el5" branch that takes care of that, but the scripts need to
> > be updated.
> >
> > As clumsy as this exercise was, it is far simpler than rolling your own
> > and it seems to work if you can get to the end of the configuration step.
> > Those more familiar with "smbldap-installer" may have a more elegant way
> > to fix it.
>
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