Ubuntu Server 7.10: OpenLDAP + SAMBA Domain Controller

[italoferraz]

Maybe it is not the best place to ask , but I've followed this tutorial and evrything is runnig fine . I'd like to know how to manage the users password, or how to let they do that. I mean.. the users should be able to change their password and update some information like telephones and email. Is there a web interface that allow to do this?

Thanks. I've learned a lot here!

[Yoshimit]

Hello

I tried your brief documentation in company. every thing is working fine but users unable to change their passwords in windows systems.

thanks

Kiran

To allow users to change their own passwords, change this option in smb.conf:

from:
'unix password sync = yes'

to:
'unix password sync = no'

worked for me, on linux (smbpasswd command) and windows (ctrl+alt+del dialog)

hope this could help you.

Yoshimit

[vanceibz]

Great guide, got it working in a few days.

I had a problem yesterday, that when restarting the windows pc.. i got a message saying there is a duplicate pc/account on the network.. I started the server again today to troubleshoot, and now everything is fine.

I can login with ricky and root users, also I can browse to add a network drive, should this be automatic from the .bat script?

I cant ping the domain name or the host name.. anyone now why this could be?

I am moving from a windows server 2003 to ubuntu server, I am going to test it for a few days..

Thanks again

Vance

[niko123]

Hi everyone,

I have a question...

When i do the following command

 apt-get install slapd ldap-utils migrationtools

All i get is

 could not resolve host us.archive.ubuntu.com. 0%

Is there any alternative for this...? i want to follow this guid throughly, so i am stumped on this.

Any help?

Pls and thanks

[albinootje]

 could not resolve host us.archive.ubuntu.com. 0%

Are you online on that machine ?
Or perhaps us.archive.ubuntu.com was offline when you tried ?
I just tried a :

mtr us.archive.ubuntu.com

and it's up.
Can you post your /etc/apt/sources.list here ?

[vanceibz]

Strange today I am getting the same error "duplicate name exists on the network" I have checked all three machines and no duplicates.

I currently have windows server 2003 sharing printers and files.

Could this be DNS issue?

I do have a problem that I cant ping the domain name of the ubuntu server example.example.local , pings to the IP and hostname is fine.

Any advice would be great

[vanceibz]

I'm still having this issue with "duplicate name on the server" I have checked all machines again, deleted host file on the local machine, restarted all pc but nothing..

I cant think of solution...

Anyone can help me out?

thanks

[vanceibz]

I think I have sorted my above problem. In webmin (clients and groups) I had a machine name ricky$ that I deleted, then on the pc i couldnt change the pc name so I joined the default workgroup (WORKGROUP) restarted the pc, changed the PC name, restarted again. Then joined the domain with the account I created in ldap.. now everything is fine. In TCP/IP I used for my DNS server the UBUNTU server address. Is this correct?

It seems that if I login the PC as the machine account it creates a duplicate on the network... Does this make sense?

[niko123]

Hi everyone...

I would like to ask some questions, which are quite embarrassing...since i had some free time off of school...i decided to try out this guide, and since high school teachers don't teach any of the sort i figured id ask you guy.

1)What does this mean

cn=admin,dc=example,dc=local

Lets say for example my FQDN would be chilly.msh.edu does that mean it would look like this

 cn=admin,dc=usf,dc=edu

if not...how would it look like


2) I ran into an error at step 11 "populate LSAP using smbldap-tools"
When i try to run this command

 smbldap-populate -u 30000 -g 30000

i get this error
[code] Error looking for next uid at /usr/share/perl5/smbldap_tools.pm line 1044

Can you please tell me where i went wrong...?

3)This is the most embarrassing question...ever!

How come i don't see the desktop while trying out this tutorial...all i get is a black screen, where i can enter all my commands? How can i change it to see the desktop?

Please do help me with these questions, i greatly greatly appreciate it.

Thanks!

[albinootje]

How come i don't see the desktop while trying out this tutorial...all i get is a black screen, where i can enter all my commands? How can i change it to see the desktop?

You installed the Ubuntu server edition ? That doesn't come with a GUI.
You can type in the following to get the Gnome desktop :

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

Or the somewhat lighter Xfce4 desktop :

sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop