Re: autofs and linux client - wierdness

[Andrea Albert <andrea.albert@is.haw-hamburg.de>]

yes it works fine...it is configured to look in the LDAP-Database for 
the maps ("automount: ldap" in nsswitch.conf) ...the client-os is SuSE 
Linux 8.1 and i had to make some changes in the autofs -script to get it 
work (it took some time :-))
...i used the schema offered by redhat ... how looks your autofs-script 
like? did you changed the ldap.conf, i mean the base?

Andrea

Greg Matthews wrote:
> Thanks for the reply Andrea... yes I already have allow bind_v2 and
> allow bind_anon_dn. autofs binds anonymously while it searches for the
> automount maps, when it finds them it trys to bind _as the dn of the
> map_ with no password.
>
> Do you have this working then?
>
> GREG
>
> On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 13:42, Andrea Albert wrote:
>
> > hi,
> >
> > have you considered to allow bind_v2 in the slapd.conf file?
> >
> > Andrea
> >
> >
> >
> > Greg Matthews wrote:
> >
> > > This is driving me potty!
> > >
> > > I've tried every combination I can think of to get my Linux clients
> > > using ldap for autofs. User auth is working fine but autofs will not
> > > play ball...
> > >
> > > no matter whether I use the nisMapName/nisObject or the
> > > automountMap/automount schema. Nor whether I use slapd to serve
> > > auto.master (and "automount: ldap" in nsswitch.conf) or use
> > > /etc/auto.master to point at the server ("automount: files" in
> > > nsswitch.conf).
> > >
> > > Sniffing the network traffic, the client searches for the map (This is
> > > redhat9 and it looks for both schemas nis* first then automount*), finds
> > > the map, and then tries to bind to the server with either
> > > nismapname=auto.users,<basedn> or ou=auto.users,<basedn> depending on
> > > the schema. slapd doesnt like that and so autofs complains it cant
> > > contact the server.
> > >
> > > Why is it trying to bind to the server with this dn?? Why is it trying
> > > to bind at all?
> > >
> > > I've googled for other ppls configs but whatever I try, I get the same
> > > results.
> > >
> > > Does someone have this combination working? Linux client, autofs over
> > > ldap? Has anyone seen this behaviour? I'm willing to post ethereal
> > > dumps, log messages, config files etc... Is anyone able to post configs
> > > for this?
> > >
> > > GREG
> > > ps solaris client working well now, just linux causing headaches.