{"id":311,"date":"2009-10-05T01:16:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T06:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourlinuxguy.com\/?p=311"},"modified":"2009-10-07T10:52:46","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T15:52:46","slug":"tip-for-samba-enabling-an-oes2-linux-nss-volume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"Tip for Samba-Enabling an OES2 Linux NSS Volume&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a consultant in the Novell-related side of things, I have configured a handful of OES2 Linux servers to be Samba-aware for the end-users.\u00a0 But for some reason, I always forget one particular step.\u00a0 And I figured that if I wrote a post about it, it would make me remember.\u00a0 Think it will work?\u00a0 Only time will tell&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the general steps to samba-enabling an OES2 user is like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create an NSS volume if you didn&#8217;t already<\/li>\n<li>Configure Universal Password for the users\/containers that need to use Samba<\/li>\n<li>Configure that NSS volume for Samba if you haven&#8217;t already (shares and users)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;okay, that&#8217;s easy enough.\u00a0 But the step I always forget happens only when I&#8217;m in a hurry, and am just enabling Universal Password with the defaults, just until I can go over the finer points of the policy with the customer.\u00a0 Because the &#8220;defaults&#8221; of a new Universal Password will not allow samba to work;\u00a0 you *must* enable one non-default thing in the policy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Allow admin to retrieve passwords<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;or you will get an error when trying to Samba-enable the user.\u00a0 The error will be something like this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Could not Samba enable the user for group, <em>(windows name)<\/em>-W-SambaUserGroup&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I need to clarify that I only have this problem when in a rush&#8230; I&#8217;m a nice, diligent, thorough consultant who <em>usually<\/em> designs, configures, and deploys a Universal Password Policy with a customer, in a test-bed, well in advance of deploying Samba&#8230; You believe me, don&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a consultant in the Novell-related side of things, I have configured a handful of OES2 Linux servers to be Samba-aware for the end-users.\u00a0 But for some reason, I always forget one particular step.\u00a0 And I figured that if I&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/?p=311\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductory","category-oeslinux","category-samba"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnjn1-51","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}