[Samba] Samba interface for administrative tools

[Ilia Chipitsine]

> Hey Guys,
> It seems to me that the very best place to store all samba conf options is
> in the ldap dir. I got all excited when I was taking a look at the samab3
> schema and saw the sambaConfigOption objectclass, found out that is not
> implimented yet. Maybe Im being a bit narrow minded to assume that everyone
> is using an ldap back end? I like the idea of being able to whip up a very
> tidy windows based (MMC?) samba console and requiring only ldap connection
> to the server and be able to FULLY control samba. Perhaps smbd could be
> setup to be quite particular about when and how it would reaload options
> from the directory?
> Hope Im not on a different wave length to the rest of you! :)
> Cheers,
> Rhys

I'm afraid that OpenLDAP (and LDAP in general) is not so popular for 
samba...

Also, You can develop MMC snap for managing LDAP samba users and groups 
:-) Samba already can store users/groups in LDAP, while general 
configuration is just proposed as scheme...

>  On 7/3/05, Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry at samba.org> wrote:
>
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>> Ilia Chipitsine wrote:
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>>> Something like
>>>
>>> [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration]
>>> [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration\global]
>>> [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration\homes]
>>> [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration\share1]
>>> ...
>>>
>>>> so, if this will be implemented, I can connect with
>>>> registry editing tools and remotely manage configuration ?
>>
>> Yup that was my idea. Each subtree of Samba's registry can
>> define it's own security descriptor access check. So assuming
>> that the user meets the appropriate securirt checks, setting a
>> valuename/data pair would set the 'parameter = value' option
>> for that section (which matches the registru value's parent
>> key).
>>
>> This is a good ways out right now. But if there is sufficient
>> interest in this kind of thing, I'm willing to work on it.
>>
>>
>> cheers, jerry
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