Samba 4 with backend provision - reference

[ogy_hpower]

thanks andrew



----- Original Message ----
From: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
To: ogy_hpower <ogy_hpower at yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: samba-technical at lists.samba.org; Oliver Liebel <oliver at itc.li>
Sent: Wednesday, 10 September, 2008 9:01:29
Subject: Re: Samba 4 with backend provision - reference

On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 15:14 +0000, ogy_hpower wrote:
> Hi andrew;
> 
> i would like to test the backend provision, recently i just don't understand how to built it from scretch;
> since i see the multiple dc can be performed at here.
> 
> - if i'm installing the backend provision; should i start from scratch or i can just upgrade from existing alpha 5?
> - is it really can run replication inside the backend services?

Using the current GIT tree, the generated multi-master OpenLDAP
configuration will replicate Samba's data between multiple servers.

You will need to start from scratch with Samba4 from the GIT tree.

> - any site recommended for reference?

The documentation at
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/LDAP_Backend/OpenLDAP applies,
but you also need to add this to the provision-backend command line:

--ldap-backend-port=9000
--ol-mmr-urls='ldap://myserver1.example.com:9000
ldap://myserver2.example.com:9000' 

Where these are the fully qualified domain names of the two servers you
wish to replicate between.  Watch carefully the example slapd command
line printed by this script - it will tell slapd to listen on port 9000,
critical for this to operate.

Run the provision-backend on both servers, and then adapt the final part
of the instructions in
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/LDAP_Backend/Fedora_DS to
OpenLDAP.  

When you get this working, please update the wiki :-)

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
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Authentication Developer, Samba Team          http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.