Status of LDAP support in Samba

[Allan Bjorklund]

  We seem to be having two different conversations even though we are
talking to each other.

  Let me think about what I'm trying to say and I'll get back to you.

--Allan


On 22-Jan-99 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>>   Yes, I know.  But it leaves many fields empty or sticks defaults
>>   in.
>>   I want to specify the values that go in those other fields.
> 
> addgroup Groupname1 groupname2 etc.
>  
>> > 
>> >>  One part I'm still trying to puzzle out is group managment and
>> >>  user
>> >> mapping.  If I add a group that is predefined in SAMBA (e.g.,
>> >> Domain
>> >> Admins) rpcclient shows two instances of it and none of the
>> >> changes
>> >> I
>> >> make with rpcclient actually go in.
>> > 
>> > SAMBA is read-only for account management.
>> >
>> 
>>   Doesn't this contradict what you said up top?
> 
> no.  rpcclient has read/write capabilities: smbd has only read-only.
> 
>>  Also, that wasn't what
>> I really trying to get at.
> 
> oh, ok.
> 
>>   What I'm curious about, is does SAMBA currently rely only on the
>> domain group map, domain user map, and local group map parameters
>> for
>> putting people into groups and mapping SMB ids to unix ids?
> 
> there's a little bit of additional logic, but yes.
>  
>>   By putting the same information into LDAP shouldn't SAMBA be able
>>   to
>> get it from there instead?
> 
> yes.
> 

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