Samba 4 alpha whatever raise your hand

Frank Gruman fgatwork at verizon.net
Tue May 18 08:37:06 MDT 2010


On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 22:48 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 07:38 -0400, Frank Gruman wrote:
> > Testing / preparing to use as a second domain controller in AD.  If
> > successful enough (testing with migration to bind, dhcp, etc), might
> > even make multiples and remove the aging Win 2k3 domain controller.
> > 
> > Have ~30 users with ~200 workstations / servers / virtual machines (labs
> > and such).
> > 
> > Installation was stock install with LDB.  Vampired from existing AD.
> > Would consider LDAP in the future as the schema settles unless LDB can
> > support the same LDAP-style queries that AD supports in order to
> > maintain 3rd party authentication mechanisms.  I've not yet tried /
> > tested this last yet.
> 
> The LDB backend is the only option you can vampire to, and yes, we
> should support the same LDAP-style queries that AD supports.  If we
> don't, then I'll try and add them for you.
> 
> Andrew Bartlett


Cool - Thanks!  I will start testing / poking at the LDAP queries.

Regards,
Frank


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