Samba3 to 4 migration & RFC2307

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 09:56 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> I'm looking at migrating to S4.  But I'm a bit stumped on how to get
> from A to B.
> 
> I have a Samba 3.x PDC with an OpenLDAP SAM backed that also uses
> RFC2307 [via nss-ldapd].  Multiple non-CIFS services/hosts use the
> OpenLDAP provided user 'database'.  I need to keep the user->UID/GID
> mappings.  
> 
> 1.) Does Samba4 have any support for RFC2307? 
> [Windbind for S4 seems to work fine, using its internal idmap].
> 
> 2.) Is it possible to migrate an RFC2307 user database  [idmap] into
> S4's idmap?
> 
> 3.) Does the myldap-pub.py script I've seen mentioned support this?
> [BTW, neat looking script - terrible name]

We support some of the attributes from that schema, but we don't
reference them internally.  We need to use the in-directory idmap, but
this hasn't been done yet (we actually used to, before a previous
rewrite).

In short, this area still needs some work. 

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Cisco Inc.