The SAMBA-LDAP-PDC Howto

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Download & compile

To stick to this Howto10 , you must have the following requirements prior to download anything
:
• RedHat Linux 7.2 installed and operational (network included),
• you must be prepared (if not already done) to use pam ldap and nss ldap (we’ll see later
how to configure them correctly).
Additionnaly, you must download :
• Samba release 2.2.4 (see below),
• OpenLDAP release 2.0.11 or 2.0.21 (see below),
• nss ldap and pam ldap (see below),
• smbldap-tools release 0.7 (see below).

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OpenLDAP 2.0.21

At the date we wrote this document, release 2.0.21 of OpenLDAP was considered stable enought
to be used in production environment. We tested it (see 16.1 on page 41), and everything
was ok, so we used it.
Just download some of the following packages :
• openldap-2.0.21-1, openldap-servers-2.0.21-1, openldap-clients-2.0.21-1 and nss ldap-1722 packages from RedHat Linux 7.2, if you want to stick to RedHat 7.2 packages,
• or openldap-2.0.23-1, openldap-servers-2.0.23-1, openldap-clients-2.0.23-1 and nss ldap173-3 packages from RawHide RedHat, if you want to run a 2.0.23 release of OpenLDAP.
You’re free to use release 2.0.21 of OpenLDAP : we tested it and everything was ok with Samba.
However, lots of bugfixes were added to OpenLDAP in the 2.0.23 release, so you’re encouraged
to use this release instead.
For production purpose, we used OpenLDAP release 2.0.23 and we encourage you to use the
same release.
RPMs for OpenLDAP release 2.0.23 may be found at ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/
linux/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/, and you will need to install the following packages:
openldap-2.0.23-1.i386.rpm
openldap-clients-2.0.23-1.i386.rpm
openldap-servers-2.0.23-1.i386.rpm
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remember: feel free to test under other distros and OS, and please report : we’ll update this Howto

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