[K12OSN] Anyone tried smbldap installer with Centos 5 ??

Tom Astle tom at pcc.com
Wed Apr 25 17:47:44 UTC 2007


These same issues cause the CentOS 4.4 not to work too.

John Lucas wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 April 2007 09:02, Brian Chivers wrote:
>> I'm about to start installing several new servers ready for the summer swap
>> and wondered if anyone had tried the smbldap installer script with Centos 5
>> and if so would share any "gotchas" :-)
>>
> 
> Your query prompted me to try it out. I ran smbldap-installer (v3.1) on a 
> CentOS-5 virtual machine (VMware Server v1.0.2) and selected "centos44" as 
> the installation target host. I was able to get SMB-LDAP installed, 
> configured and running *but* the installation script does not work out of the 
> box. I ran into the following problems (and workarounds):
> 
> 1. Vanilla CentOS-5 does not define the "dag" repository.
> 	Fix: That is Dag Wieers repository: http://dag.wieers.com/
> 
> 2. Repository has been renamed "rpmforge"
> 	Fix: In /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo change [rpmforge] to [dag]
> 
> 3. Still can't get several Perl modules due to version mismatches
> 	Fix: use yum to install packages without reference to version numbers
> 
> 4. The smbldap-tools didn't get installed. Manual installation collides with 
> perl-ldap module.
> 	Fix: remove perl-ldap modle with yum. Use yum to get right perl-ldap and then 
> 	install smbldap-tools.
> 
> The installer script used a hodge-podge of packages from the "dag" repository 
> (several old Fedora packages for instance). Dag seems to have a suitable 
> "el5" branch that takes care of that, but the scripts need to be updated.
> 
> As clumsy as this exercise was, it is far simpler than rolling your own and it 
> seems to work if you can get to the end of the configuration step. Those more 
> familiar with "smbldap-installer" may have a more elegant way to fix it.
> 




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