[Samba] Re: Wishlist for v4.0 Integration / Setup of samba.

[Paul Gienger]

Markus Benkovski wrote:

>I'm finding that most linux PDC users use LDAP for authentication.  Stupid
>question why LDAP?  
>
Is your question why are people using ldap?  I'll go under the 
assumption that it is.  If you have 2+ servers that need to stay in 
sync, it helps (a lot) to have a network directory structure.  Having 
used a couple alternatives, LDAP is more full featured than what I have 
used, easier to understand, and is pretty much 'standard' fare on 
current linux distros to at least be available without having to build 
the whole thing yourself.  Combine that with many sources of 
documentation and several methods for editing easily (gq, phpLdapAdmin, 
perl::LDAP, ad nauseum) and it's the choice du jour.

>I total agree with improving the GUI but still nothing
>beats CLI.
>  
>
I'll not jump into that flamewar-bait, at least not without my asbestos 
underpants, and they're at home :-D


>Markus Benkovszki
>samba3.0.2 PDC
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gerald (Jerry) Carter [mailto:jerry at samba.org]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 9:43 AM
>To: Jim C.
>Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
>Subject: Re: [Samba] Re: Wishlist for v4.0 Integration / Setup of samba.
>
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>Jim C. wrote:
>| Wrapper scripts are a good idea. Would be really good for transitioning
>| over to samba from 'doze.  Could even be written as a separate package.
>|
>| | I don't like the windows's net command, nor the route, nor the "tracert"
>| | (come on, who wrote these?), nor the ping (yes, not even the ping).  If
>| | somebody wants a "windows compatible" net command, write a wrap script.
>| | (please, read on, I just don't like the feeling of using the same thing
>| | on windows and linux).
>| |> for example make everything integrated into the net command.....
>|
>|
>| | Improve the swat wizard, sounds cool.  Altough I only used it once, I
>| | think that any newbe would be thankful.
>|
>| Another good idea for transitioners.
>|
>| |> There should also be a way to configure ldap and samba to work
>| |> together, this manual config-shit is useless.
>|
>| Well a SWAT style GUI configurator would be nice.
>| Probably best to work it into something like GQ
>| though rather than Samba, though.
>
>More things that are already on the TODO list.  Just needing
>time, resources, and people at the moment.
>
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>
>
>cheers, jerry
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