SAMBA PDC + LDAP

[Ignacio Coupeau]

Andy Zbikowski wrote:
> 
> I was playing with a SAMBA PDC with an LDAP backend last night, and got
> to the point where the LDAP database is ready to go, only to have samba
> remind me that the version I was running (2.0.7, Debian packages)
> doesn't support LDAP.
at all...

> 
> So looks like it's time to compile TNG, or is this feature in a
> different branch? As I'm only working with a handful Win98 clients, I
> don't need TNG if a more stable version of samba supports it.

- the TNG supports LDAP but the schema may change... I think if you can,
wait a while because the TNG looks fine.
- the HEAD (10/15/99) and is pretty stable.

Please, read the 
http://www.unav.es/cti/ldap-smb/ldap-smb-howto.html
it may help you.

> I was thinking I could use LDAP as the backend in a effort to better
> integrate the Linux boxen with the windows boxen. In hindsight, maybe
> going with a samba PDC (without ldap) and using pam-smb-auth on the UNIX
> end will be easier to implement and keep running...I don't know, I just
> like to play with things. =) (This sin't a production enviorment...just
> fooling with my home network and locking my roomates out of their
> computers...hehehe)

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