For anyone following the saga, I’ve been trying to do a migration NT4 (yes, NT 4) to Samba running LDAP as a backend.  I’ve done migrations in the past and they have not been this painful.  Here’s the latest goodie:
As part of the migration, you ned to get the SID from the NT 4 PDC. […]

I’m trying to migrate an NT 4 Enterprise Edition PDC to a Samba 3.0.23 BDC running on Suse 10.2. According to everything I read, this should be easy, but it’s not working.
If I do
net rpc vampire -S WINNT -W MYDOMAIN -U Administrator
I get
[2008/09/02 17:59:07, 0] rpc_client/cli_pipe.c:cli_rpc_pipe_open_schannel(2673)
cli_rpc_pipe_open_schannel: failed to get schannel session key from […]

How I fixed mutt to read new emails

In an earlier post, I gave you the the data needed to diagnose a hard drive failure and several symptoms of the failure. In this post, we’ll go over my observations and fixes.
First problem
I mentioned that partitions 6 and 7 were complaining of errors. Naturally, the way to fix these is to […]

I got a call today from a new client, M. Four years or so ago, M’s company bought a Linux-based file server from a local company that is now defunct. Some time ago, the mirrored drive went bad and the system kept running as Linux systems are wont to do. Unfortunately, the […]

I have been fighting all week trying to get Samba 3.0 and LDAP 3.0 working on a openSUSE 10.2 server. I got it working once; I was rebuilding it again for the practice.
I kept getting these errors whenever I ran smbldap-populate, depending on whether or not I started with a clean LDAP database (clean […]