HP CIFS Server 3.0d Administrator's Guide version A.02.02 (Edition 5)

LDAP Integration Support

Installing your Samba Users in the Directory

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Installing your Samba Users in the Directory

This section describes how to install and verify your samba users in your

LDAP directory.

Adding Credentials

When you use the HP CIFS Server with the LDAP feature support, the

smbpasswd command manipulates user accounts information on the

LDAP directory rather than the /var/opt/samba/private/smbpasswd

ﬁle. You must add the directory manager credentials to the

/var/opt/samba/private/secrets.tdb ﬁle before installing Samba

users to the LDAP directory.

Run the following command to save the LDAP credentials for the user

who can modify the LDAP directory for samba information:

$ smbpasswd -w <password of the LDAP Directory Manager>

For example, the following command saves the credentials of the LDAP

directory manager:

$ smbpasswd -w dmpasswd

Where dmpasswd is the password of the LDAP directory manager.

NOTE You must ensure that the password correctly matches with the password

for the ldap admin directory manager. This password is for user

administration and is stored for later use. If the password is incorrect, no

error message is displayed, but the user administration will fail when

attempted.

Verifying Samba Users

You can use the ldapsearch command-line utility to locate and retrieve

LDAP directory entries. This utility opens a connection to the speciﬁed

server using the speciﬁed Distinguished Name (DN) and password, and

locates entries based on the speciﬁed search ﬁlter.