LDAP and Open Directory on OSX Snow Leopard server

[lschafroth]

I would like to get LDAP to connect to my OD master which is a Snow Leopard Open Directory Master. I use moodle and other LDAP services with OD but I cannot get the same type of settings to work with FreeNAS. Some of the guides I have found require you to login via SSH. I have ssh enabled and configured for root access but when I try to connect to the FreeNAS box I get a connection refused.

My goal is to setup FreeNAS as a backup share for Time Machine. I would like to create mobile users but disable home synching. This allows me to have a local user tied to the OD. I can then use TIme Machine on the client to backup the software to the freenas home folder.

I have successfully connected to the AFP share on FreeNAS with a local user account on the nas box since ldap does not work. I was able to run a Time Machine backup. I was not able to use WorkGroup Manager and create a home folder pointing to the NAS box. Not sure if that is possible or not. If I went to a true local account on the macbook clients then I lose the ability to keep their logins tied to OD.

Anyway, back to the original question: lol

I need to get SSH to work on the freenas and then get ldap to work.

[lschafroth]

I found that you have to start the service from the Services tab at the top. I was using the services tab on the left. Anyway, I can now ssh into the box. when I try to start the LDAP service it tries for a long time then goes back to OFF. There does not appear to be any logs on the webgui?? how can you not have a debugging or log menu?

I found the var/log folder but it doesnt appear to have anything relating to the services and how to see why the ldap service does not start.

Lannie

[lschafroth]

OK, progress. The guide I found was missing the cn=users after the uid-diradmin. so once I changed the bind it worked! bow if there was only a good log system in the gui.

[lschafroth]

I have LDAp running and I can type id username and it works. How do I get the ldap accounts and groups to show up in the accounts section of FreeNas? None of them are listed.

[lschafroth]

I've come to the conclusion that 8.03 is no where near ready for production. Very few items work as expected and the gui has issues as well. I am downloading the version 7 stable and will try that.

[lschafroth]

Wow, 7 was much worse. I tried the latest 8.2 beta 3 and it is much better. I can connect based off of LDAP groups now. This is when accessing a afp share. Is there a way to create a share with read access to the root folder than create a subfolder for each student's graduation year then each students home folder under that?

I could map that students folder they have write access to and schedule TIme Machine. Or do I have to create a share for every single user?

For example:

Drive name is STORAGE. AFP share is called DATA. I would create a folder under that called 2013. Under that folder all students graduating in 2013 would have a sub folder. They would only have access to their folder and only see their folder. How do I assign permissions in this manner?

thanks!!

Lannie

[lschafroth]

I did notice the ldap user dropdown only shows the first 20-30 accounts and nothing more. Is there something I need to change to see all users via LDAP?

[lschafroth]

Does anyone monitor these forums????

[John Homer H Alvero]

I have this problem since one year ago and up until now, it's still not resolved! Lol, FreeNAS + OS X OD just doesn't work. I got into a part where I was able to get id,groups from OD but CIFS/samba won't authenticate from OD.

[lschafroth]

I gave up on Open Directory. I will be using AD for all of our macbooks and Casper to manage preferences. No apples servers needed anymore. Migrating moodle and school website to linux. MacBooks to xserve = SLOW!! MacBooks to Windows = FAST, macbooks to NAS = VERY FAST. looks like I might have to go with qnap. there doesnt seem to be any activity here and the gui is nowhere near ready for a production environment. wish it was because I can build such a fast system with FreeNAS for little money.