[Discuss] Help with samba3x and libwbclient.so.0

[Scott Ehrlich]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 2/7/12 6:05 AM, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
>> Revisiting a recent posting of mine -
>>
>> So I have an isolated network consisting of a Win 2008 R2 w/SP1 domain
>> controller and an unpatched (i.e. out of box) 64-bit RHEL 5.7
>> workstation.
>>
>> The goal is to get the RHEL workstation to join the domain controller
>> for authentication.
>>
>> I was recently reminded, when doing this before, that the stock samba
>> on the RHEL box does not work, that, on my CentOS box, and other
>> CentOS systems I've recently built, I've had to remove the native
>> samba packages and replace them with samba3x.
>>
>
> Our CentOS 5.7 builds at work work just fine against our Windows 2008
> DCs.  What exactly are you trying to achieve?  I take it you want user
> info from AD via nss_ldap?  How do you want to do authentication?
> pam_krb5 or pam_ldap?
>
> You do not need to join a host to AD in order to do that.  Our older
> build did not join hosts to AD.  Our new one does and it works fine for
> us.  Using '-d' with the `net` command will display debug info about the
> join attempt.

What is your Linux setup to allow you to have users authenticate to AD
without joining?

What kerberos, samba, pam updates, etc, do you do to permit this?

Thanks.

Scott

>
>> So two questions -
>>
>> 1) What exactly is samba3x - from where does it originate?   No amount
>> of googling reveals an answer, other than available patches.
>> samba.org doesn't seem to say anything about it.
>>
>> 2) An attempted rpm install of the latest version of samba3x, obtained
>> from the CentOS site (didn't have immediate access to the RHEL repo) ,
>> hit some snags:
>>
>> rpm -Uvh samba3x-<package> hit some unmet library dependencies.   I
>> resolve two of the three, but libwbclient.so.0 is refusing to be
>> acknowledged.
>>
>> It lives in /usr/local/samba/...
>>
>> I've placed it in /lib64 and tried ldconfig and a reboot.   It refuses
>> to be picked up.
>>
>> What am I missing?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Scott
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