Richard, as u did previously, i hope u will so nice to help me now :) i installed a centos 4 by scratch using serverCd i was sure that after so many months spent on fedorads it was a ride to install a new one, instaed...:( after following howto step by step i stucked here: pdbedit -U S-1-5-21-1021296036-3260500371-205587421-500 -u Administrator -r Username not found! i read carefully this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/fedora-directory-users at redhat.com/msg00450.html and i modified ldd stuff as Gary suggestd to do but nothing :( issuing ldapsearch i get: # ldapsearch -b "dc=xxx,dc=it" '(uid=Administrator)' version: 1 dn: uid=Administrator,ou=People,dc=xxx,dc=it uid: Administrator cn: Samba Admin givenName: Samba sn: Admin mail: Administrator at xxx.it objectClass: person objectClass: organizationalPerson objectClass: inetOrgPerson objectClass: posixAccount objectClass: top loginShell: /bin/bash uidNumber: 0 gidNumber: 0 homeDirectory: /root gecos: Samba Admin as i reported here http://osdir.com/ml/linux.redhat.fedora.directory.user/2005-07/msg00176.html "So it looks like perhaps the administrator account needs the objectclass sambaSamAccount added to the entry manually then you should be able to proceed" i have no smbldap-tools installed yet so i wonder: -> why following carefully howto i get an amdinistrator entry without the objectclass sambaSamAccount? <- i am sure i am not the first neither the last the have this issue! if necessary i can restart the installation TIA Richard :) Maurizio -- Dr. Maurizio Marini CoST Computers Services and Technologies s.r.l. http://www.cost.it e-mail: maurizio.marini at cost.it phone: +39.0245446202 fax: +39.0245446333 mobile: +39.3358259739
