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

Huck dhuckaby at paasda.org
Wed Jul 12 15:55:39 UTC 2006


for future reference..when looking for specific files there are multiple 
ways of course...my fav is

'updatedb'
and then
'locate <filename/or partial filename>'

so 'locate smbldap-useradd'
would have returned a list the path of files that match 'smbldap-useradd'

--Huck

larry wrote:
> 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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