[KLUG Members] Help for upgrade to Samba 3.0.1 (LDAPSAM) fm 2.2.8a anybody?

[Adam Williams]

> |>|> I've got it almost working but right now it is allowing anyone to
> |>|>  access the shares and wont add a machine even if there is
> |>|> already a record in the machines ou.  I've been watching the logs
> |>|>  but can't find any recognizable errors.
> |>| What error do you get when you try to join the domain (I assume
> |>| thats what you mean by "add a machine")?
> |>"Access is denied"  This seems odd since it otherwise grants access
> |>without a password or anything.
> |You are using the root username and password?  You have to have a root
> |account in LDAP.  And a posixAccount already exists for the machine with
> |a unique uidNumber and VALID gidNumber?
> This is still occuring BTW, despite the fact that I removed guest from
> the list of backends, etc.
> I'm still getting this alot too:
> Jan 15 12:48:26 enigma slapd[5625]: conn=5 op=26 SRCH
> base="ou=Group,dc=j9starr,dc=net" scope=2
> filter="(&(objectClass=sambaGroupMapping)(gidNumber=4294967295))
> I note that one can fire up the calculator and paste in 4294967295,
> convert it to hex and it comes out as 0xFFFFFFFF.  Is there a list of
> well known rids converted to hex?

None of them convert to anything like that.
A list of RIDs is available at -
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/groupmapping.html

> Is this (the 0xFFFF... ) merely another error message, i.e. pherhas
> when there is an error, this is the value returned :0xFFFFFFFF ?

I've never seen anything like that;  I can't imagine how it is "sane"
behaviour.