Description of problem: When samba is configured to use LDAP as its password database, the following error will be repeated often in the host.log files: [2006/12/01 08:33:44, 0] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_open(1009) smbldap_open: cannot access LDAP when not root.. This is a known problem, see https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4097, and has been fixed in 3.0.23d. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): samba-3.0.23c-2 How reproducible: Configure samba to use LDAP as its password backend passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://ldap-r.ottix.com/ Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure samba to use LDAP as its password backend 2. Use windows explorer on a WinXPPro client to browse a directory tree on the samba server. 3. Create a new MSWord document and save to the directory tree. Often the "save as" will not work, and then subsequent "save"s (Cntrl-S) will also silently fail. Actual results: 1. Lots of "smbldap_open: cannot access LDAP when not root.." in the host.log files. 2. New document not created on the server. Extremely unhappy users. Expected results: Additional info: This problem is documented as Samba bug 4097.
So it will be fine in 3.0.24 then, too. Please reopen if it doesn't work as expected.