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Samba and LDAP

Samba as PDC

net rpc group addmem  "Domain Users" someuser

nt 4.0 reskit to manage domain users!!

cpau.exe to run stuff as other user

Windows complaining about wrong rights on profile

Terms

Commands and tools

  • net
  • testparm
  • pdbedit
  • smbmount or just mount -t smbfs -o username=foo,password=bar //server/share /mnt/point
  • smbclient
  • smbstatus
  • nmblookup -M domainname
  • nltest (on windows)

FAQ

Cannot update roaming profile

Usually because a file is in use, check out

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\ExcludeProfileDirs

Can't join domain

close all shares log in to windows, no anonymous 'login'


smbmount

mount -t smbfs -o username=someuser,uid=uidofmountpoint,gid=gidofmountpoint,fmask=775 //servername/sharename /mnt/sharename/

Windows cannot connect to the domain, etc..

Switch to workgroup, reboot, join domain again, reboot.