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

[Brian Chivers]

I've got a nice empty test box setup on the bench with all the Centos disk
ready to have a go one Monday.

I'm starting with a basic i386 install before I move to the actual servers
that I'm going to use the x86_64 version on

I'll let you know how I get on.

Brian

> 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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