On 07/01/2008, mallapadi niranjan <niranjan.ashok@gmail.com> wrote:

what does "pdbedit -Lv username"  shows

Username not found!
 

I don't see any samba object classes included,   If you have configured samba with LDAP backend (FDS), Your user's LDAP information would typically look like

dn: uid=tom,ou=Users,dc=syroidmanor,dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: account
objectClass: posixAccount
objectClass: sambaAccount
cn: tom
uid: tom
uidNumber: 500
gidNumber: 100
homeDirectory: /hometom
loginShell: /bin/bash
gecos: User
description: User
userPassword:: e1NTSEF9bWxBL1RHZFNoTkREEWlGTndZOFlCWUVUdWp3MGgrbTc=
lmPassword: 552902031BEDE9EFAAD3B435B51404EE
pwdCanChange: 0
pwdMustChange: 2147483647
ntPassword: 878D8014606CDA29677A44EFA1353FC7
pwdLastSet: 1010179230


 
Hmm that's odd, just looking at my ldap settings in smb.conf, I can't see what I've missed.

passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://192.168.1.21

# ldap details
ldap admin dn = cn=Directory manager
ldap suffix = dc=skysedge,dc=co,dc=uk
ldap user suffix = ou=People
ldap machine suffix = ou=Computers
ldap group suffix = ou=Groups

 
That looks the same as the howto shows to me.

Nick