Comments on: Some Notes on Solaris-AD Integration

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:17:32 +0000

Yes, I discovered that if you modify /etc/nsswitch.ldap (per Scott’s instructions) before running ldapclient, then you can simply use the domain name (ex. ‘example.com’) and DNS is leverage for the resolution.

By: Arya

Arya — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:22:11 +0000

I suspect the reason why it prefers an IP address is because ldapclient manual replaces /etc/nsswitch.conf with /etc/nsswitch.ldap, thus preventing the system from using DNS.

By: John Dinardo

John Dinardo — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:20:14 +0000

I’m with Martin on this one, get to work!

By: slowe

slowe — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:27:44 +0000

Martin,

Sorry, no. I’m horribly busy at the moment with other tasks, but I do hope to tackle this soon. Thanks for reading, and thanks for your patience!

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:30:57 +0000

Any update on the newest version of the instructions? Especially for the newest release of solaris 10? Thanks for the hard work!

By: slowe

slowe — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:01:06 +0000

Geekcq,

The attribute changes were really for Linux-Solaris co-existence more than anything else. This primarily centeres around different paths for home directories between Linux (/home/user) and Solaris (/export/home/user) and shell paths (the path to sh vs. tcsh, for example). There are ways around this–symbolic links–but I preferred not to have to make too many changes on the Linux/Solaris side, and try to have AD accommodate the different needs.

Hope this helps!

By: geekcq

geekcq — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:03:40 +0000

Any chance you can give a quick blurb on the Linux/Solaris issues and post the attribute changes you mention above as I think we may be hitting same issues you did.

Thanks!

By: unixfoo

unixfoo — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:42:16 +0000

Excellent hints for Solaris-AD.