[SAMBA4] Samba appliance for terminal servers

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 16:04 +0800, Steven McCoy wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
>   I have read some of your documents (Samba 4 - Active Directory, 5th
> January 2005) and the SambaXP 2006 talks, and so hopefully the appliance can
> be updated to support the join process.
> 
> I have in mind two targets for such an appliance, one for small < 25
> employee companies with little expectation of AD integration, and the other
> for schools with OLPC style projects.  Promoting diskless servers and
> clients allows for more stable environments that are easier to repair,
> simply replace broken machines or parts: no need to re-configure the
> software or install new drivers, etc.  Samba allows the nice integration of
> Windows hosts and software that cannot be replaced with Linux/Unix
> counterparts.

Very interesting. 

> A couple of technical questions:  will Samba 4 allow LDAP clients to modify
> the entries, and can I add extra schemas like the qmail, sendmail, exim, and
> postfix mail schemas?  According to previous notes and docs it should be
> able to by updating schema.ldif?

We don't currently check schemas, so you don't need to add them, but
when we do start checking, we will convert and load these external
schemas.

> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2005-November/043846.html
> 
> So to support schema files I would need to convert them to LDIF, update the
> master schema.ldif and rebuild the Samba databases?

Yep.  see oLschema2ldif.  I have recently updated it to convert the
matching rules as required.

Andrew Bartlett

-- 
Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.                  http://redhat.com
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/attachments/20060818/aa6dece2/attachment.bin