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

[Robert Moskowitz]

Brian Chivers wrote:
> 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 :-)
It would be nice if you are able to actually change the script and get 
it out.

I have already built my Centos 5 box ready to install.  Right now I am 
fighting on another Centos 5 box that is the DNS server.  It turns out 
that RedHat 'altered' how BIND is installed with Enterprise 5, and on 
Bugzilla, they are saying that what they did is ok and asking for the 
particular bug report to be closed.

I think I have enough figured out so that now I can just get the 
chrooted files where I want them and then set up the proper sym lins to 
/etc.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234508

It is interesting to see how the Centos community is finding things that 
RedHat will have to fix before their customers hit them....


>
> 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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