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

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Thu Jul 12 12:08:35 UTC 2007 


Brian Chivers wrote back on 04/30/2007 08:56 AM:
> I've just got the smbldap installer working with CentOS 5 with a bit 
> of a "hack" for the renaming of dag to rpmforge.
>
> If anyone would like it completely untested that is please let me know 
> and I'll mail it over
So do we have CentOS 5 support 'working yet'?

On http://majen.net/smbldap/, the current version is 3.1.1, created 4/30/07.

Centos 5/RHEL5/FC6 performs so much better than 4.x...
>
> Brian
>
> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> BTW,
>>
>> I copy the CDs to a server, the do a 'linux askmethod' at the 
>> prompt.  One CD 1 is needed in the install machine, the install goes 
>> faster, and no CD read errors..
>>
>> I use an FTP server, HTTP and NFS are also options.
>>
>> Brian Chivers wrote:
>>> 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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