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

[Brian Chivers]

Thanks for the pointers guys.

What I'll do is have a look though the packages that the installer script uses for CentOS 4.4 and 
then try to find the relevent packages either via one of the 7 CD's or Yum etc.

When I'm done I'll let you guys know so people don't have to reinvent the wheel :-)

Brian

John Lucas wrote:
> 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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