Configuring Samba through LDAP

[Matthew Geddes]

On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Manish Madan wrote:

> Hello,
>        I am trying to enable samba configuration through an LDAP directory rather than from the local smb.conf file. The changes are almost done, and I am testing all the functions right now (Unit Testing). Having Samba configure through LDAP means a Network Administrator can handle configuration through a single node. Also, many machines may share the same configuration without having to copy a file at each node. Or share configurations partially (the 'include' option still works, so machines can load part of the parameters from local file).
>      Please tell me if there are specific features/issues with regard to this. I'd be glad to make appropriate changes or make desirable features available, according to your feedback.

How are you going to tell Samba to read the configuration from the LDAP
directory instead of the smb.conf file. You'd also need to tell it which
host to read from, etc, etc. You obviously can't specify these things in
the LDAP directory, and if the smb.conf file is not being used....

I'm sure you've already thought about these things, but I'm interested to
see what the answers to the above questions are.

thx,
Matt