[Pkg-samba-maint] Samba4 and LDAP

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 14:49 +0100, Martin Simons wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> Jeremy Allison had an excellent presentation of Samba4 at Fosdem yesterday.
> 
> After his talk I spoke briefly to him about the interoperability between
> Samba4 and LDAP, because this seems to exist no longer. The onliest
> possibility left is dumping am LDAP database to an ldif file and then upload
> it to the AD compatible Samba4 server.
> 
> The issue is towards the LDAP version that Samba4 is compatible with. As we
> know LDAP now uses the Provider Consumer model instead of the Master Slave
> model. Samba now operates on a Master Master principle, the standard of which
> is not clear to me.
> 
> Samba4 would have a so called classic mode that would allow to use it as a
> file server still in combination with a standardized LDAP server. This feature
> however needs to be tested more thoroughly it seems, it is not proven yet.
> 
> The need for a Samba server that interacts is obvious, since the LDAP service
> is used by a abundant number of services that interact with it. I name a
> couple of services I personally have experience with: Zarafa mail server and
> SugarCRM.
> 
> I do not want to set the Samba house to fire, because it is very deer to me,
> but I feel a strong interest in having Samba interoperate with the standard
> LDAP service. I want to involve in order to guarantee this in the long run.
> 
> I will be in Los Angeles as of February 25th and I am prepared to meet any of
> you people up to march 1st, in order to see whatever contribution I should
> make.

Please re-send this to the samba list.  There is nothing debian related
about this.  Please look over the existing posts on samba and
samba-technical, as the limitations and upgrade procedures here have
been discussed at length.  I'm also happy to work with you to have more
schema items migrated.

Andrew Bartlett

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