Errata and Helpful Tips: Samba as a PDC

---With Thanks to Roland Dobbins---

Technical issue -

The 'correct' way to install a non-precompiled version of Samba on Red Hat or Red Hat-derived distributions is to build an RPM with the correct dependency flags, then install the RPM. Anything else breaks RPM.

TMS: True. The HOWTO for this is discussed in my upcoming Samba/LDAP tutorial. I'll see if the IBM editors would be willing to add a panel discussing how to build an RPM from a source RPM.

I also found a few grammatical/punctuation/capitalization typos:

• Page 4 - "Lot's" should be "Lots".
• Page 7 - "They" doesn't match "anyone", should be "He", "their" should be "his"
• Page 10 - "Unecessarily complex" is used in two sentences in a row. Should be "six- or seven-page".
• Page 11 - Should be em-dash in "weirdness--don't".
• Page 13 - Should be "can consume", "stretch" should be "stretched".
• Page 22 - "consist" should be "consists".
• Page 24 - "has bit" should be "has bitten".
• Page 28 - "THE Web" should be "The Web"
• Use of "their" throughout incorrect, should be "his".
• Double-dashes throughout instead of em-dashes.

TMS: I believe the last issue is a limitation of IBM's XML layout; IRC, they require two dashes as the emdash character is not supported. Thanks for the great proof reading, Roland!

---With Thanks to John Schmerold---

• On my RH 7.2 box group -g 200 admins didn't work. I had to use the groupadd command.

I found a useful command line utility for adding users located at: http://samba.linuxbe.org/en/download/SMBuser.sh.gz. I run following commands to install in my RH Samba system:

wget http://samba.linuxbe.org/en/download/SMBuser.sh.gz gzip -d SMBuser.sh.gz chmod +x SMBuser.sh mv SMBuser.sh /sbin/smbuser

---With Thanks to Randy McCullough---

• I copied the entire smb.conf file from "The final cut" section. It seems that the "domain logons = yes" option was left out in it. (You did include its reference earlier under "Security settings".)
• In the "Creating the PDC administrative directories" section, you used "chown 1757 /home/samba/profiles" and I believe you meant to use "chmod 1757 /home/samba/profiles".