[K12OSN] re: smbldap-useradd command through firewall (larry)

[larry]

Matt - THANKS for sharing your knowledge!!! I worked a lot of hours on
this and am very thankful for the help.

Works like a champ when you know where to go.

Larry

On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 14:30 -0400, Matt Oquist wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:40:59 -0400
> > From: larry <lmcpherson at mail.sumner.k12.me.us>
> > Subject: [K12OSN] smbldap-useradd command through firewall
> > 
> > I've installed a Primary Domain Controler (PDC-K12LTSP4.2.1) at one of
> > my K-8 schools using David Trask's How-to at:
> > http://web.vcs.u52.k12.me.us/linux/smbldap/ (Great how-to!!!).
> > Everything worked great ---- but now I want to admin my PDC from my
> > office (remote location).
> > 
> > I ssh -l root into my firewall at the school -- then ssh -l root into
> > the PDC.
> > 
> > Commands that work are:
> > 	net groupmap list
> > 	getent group
> > 	pdbedit -Lv username
> > 	& others
> > 
> > Commands that don't work are:
> > 	smbldap-useradd username (error msg: "command not found")
> > 	smbldap-groupadd groupname (error msg: "command not found")
> > 
> > I'm unsure why some commands work and others don't.
> 
> Are you sure smbldap-useradd and smbldap-groupadd are in your $PATH?
> 
> This will show you what your $PATH is:
> $ echo $PATH
> 
> Look through the list of directories and see if the location of
> smbldap-useradd is there; I expect it not to be. The Fedora
> smbldap-tools packages typically put the smbldap-* scripts in...less
> than convenient places such as /opt/IDEALX/sbin/. I don't know why
> anyone thinks this is a good idea.
> 
> --matt
> 
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