ther is a typo in smbldap-populate script ditribuited with samba. there is a duplicated -g switch and no -b switch Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run the smbldap-populate with -u and -g switches ./smbldap-populate -u 2000 -g 2000 -b Guest Actual Results: an account with uid=2000 is created Expected Results: an account with uid=Guest is created this simple patch will solve the problem: --- smbldap-populate 2004-11-13 18:46:41.704237272 +0100 +++ smbldap-populate 2004-11-13 18:48:04.940583424 +0100 @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ print " -u uidNumber first uidNumber to allocate (default: 1000)\n"; print " -g gidNumber first uidNumber to allocate (default: 1000)\n"; print " -a user administrator login name (default: Administrator)\n"; - print " -g user guest login name (default: nobody)\n"; + print " -b user guest login name (default: nobody)\n"; print " -e file export ldif file\n"; print " -i file import ldif file\n"; print " -? show this help message\n"; @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ $adminName = "Administrator"; } -my $guestName = $Options{'g'}; +my $guestName = $Options{'b'}; if (!defined($guestName)) { $guestName = "nobody"; } Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9 i686 Celeron (Mendocino) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 apache2 innodb kerberos qmail winbind"
I believe this is fixed in smbldap-tools-0.8.7 available from idealx.org. There probably should be a way to update smbldap-tools independently from samba releases. idealx also mentions in the changelog dated 2005-06-01: new location /opt/IDEALX and /etc/opt/IDEALX/ (instead of /usr/local and /etc) to conform to FHS/LS Also the scripts definitely look for smbldap.conf in /etc/opt/IDEALX/smbldap-tools/ yet the ebuild places it in /etc/smbldap-tools/.
fixed with new versions of samba, which leave smbldap-tools as a separate package
