Setting up samba as PDC

[Joerg Pulz]

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On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, BUTTERWORTH,THADDAEUS (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm needing to set up my machine as a PDC. When I go to add users using the
> smbpasswd -a username command I get the following error. Does anyone have
> any suggestions on how to fix this error?
>
> fetch_ldap_pw: no ldap secret retrieved!
>
> ldap_connect_system: Failed to retrieve password for  from secrets.tdb

you have to set the password for "ldap admin dn" first.

try 'smbpasswd -w <password>'

the password is then stored in the secrets.tdb file. this is necessary to
make samba able to connect as a user with write permissions to the LDAP
server. otherwise, as your current situation shows, it is not possible to
change any information in the LDAP tree.

Joerg
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