Fedora DS Support

Simo Sorce idra at samba.org
Tue Aug 11 02:34:48 MDT 2009


On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 08:03 +0200, Luke Howard wrote:
> On 07/08/2009, at 6:26 AM, Endi Sukma Dewata wrote:
> 
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > ----- "Andrew Bartlett" <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> >
> >> We also need to consider if Samba should instead just implement  
> >> it's own
> >> distributed RID allocator, using a schema compatible with the one  
> >> used
> >> by Microsoft.
> >
> > Is this what you are referring to? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305475
> 
> If you want replication interoperability with Windows, you'll need to  
> support their RID allocation algorithm.

This is true when you want to use the native DRSUAPI protocol, but when
using OpenLDAP or Fedora DS as backends, we are currently planning to
use their native replication protocols instead.

Simo.




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