Samba 4 alpha whatever raise your hand

[Matthieu Patou]

On 18/05/2010 17:37, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 15:29 +0200, Justo Alonso wrote:
>    
>> Hi !
>> I have it on production since alpha8 version, with LDAP backend.
>>      
> How is that working?
>
>
> We are planning on testing Samab4 the first week of June;  and I'm
> really torn between just going with the simplicity of ldb or trying to
> use OpenLDAP.  We have a fairly sophisticated OpenLDAP install with lots
> of applications integrated with OpenLDAP.  What I'm really concerned
> about is DNS - we use SDB:LDAP so that our bind servers use OpenLDAP as
> their backends and not flat-files.  So what will I have to do to have S4
> update DNS (will it involved migrating my DNS out of LDAP to flat files?
> Ugh.  LDAP in DNS is very nice).   If I go with ldb I'll end up with two
> LDAP infrastructures at least until I migrate DNS [?], Mail, RADIUS,
> BIE/OIE, and I forget what else into LDB.
>
> We have ~20 servers, ~300 users, distributed over 15 sites.
>
>    
>> Please, plan the update of the upgradeprovisionscript ! ;-)
>>      
In fact the thing is that until openldap provide ldap transaction it 
will be quite complicated to make upgradeprovision work correctly with 
openldap.
We will see what we can do for openldap I hope soon.

Cheers.

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Matthieu Patou
Samba Team        http://samba.org