[K12OSN] Anyone got Gutsy Gibbon authenticating against LDAP

[R. Scott Belford]

Brian Chivers wrote:
> I've been trying for the last couple of days to get a new Edubuntu 
> install to authenticate against our LDAP server setup by the 
> smbldap-installer script.
> 
> It all seems to work but using
> 
> $ ./smbldap ldapclient
> 
> but when I do a reboot it takes a really long time to restart.
> 
> Reading on the web I think that it's trying to access the ldap stuff 
> BEFORE eth0 is pulled up hence no connection.
> 
> Has anyone got any advice, as all I've been able to do so far is to lock 
> myself out the box yet again :-)

Notice that there is an /etc/ldap.conf file and an /etc/ldap/ldap.conf 
file on Gutsy.  I have used Jim's how-to to setup clients and servers to 
authenticate off of an existing smbldap server

http://www.1-cs.com/ubuntu_ldap_howto.txt

but have to modify one of these files by hand.  Otherwise it 
authenticates and works just fine.  Reboot into rescue mode if you have 
hosed your current configs.

> 
> Brian Chivers
> Portsmouth College

--scott