[Samba] A question to Samba developers (or experienced users) about connections to a LDAP server using Unix sockets (LDAPI)

Sun Feb 7 19:51:21 MST 2010

On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 21:52 +0000, Miguel Medalha wrote:
> After acquiring some experience with the use of Samba+OpenLDAP, I am now 
> in the process of creating my first PDC based on Samba+CentOS (Red Hat, 
> Fedora, 389) Directory Server. While reading the DS documentation, 
> something caught my attention.
> The Administration Guide for Red Hat Directory Server 8.1 states the 
> following:
> Inter-process communication (IPC) is a way for separate processes on a 
> Unix machine or a network
> to communicate directly with each other. LDAPI is a way to run LDAP 
> Does Samba support this type of connection to the LDAP server?

Yes.