Samba3 / Samba4 migration -- question

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 18:36 +0100, Gémes Géza wrote:
> 2011-11-07 07:57 keltezéssel, Gémes Géza írta:
> > 2011.11.04. 20:27 keltezéssel, Adam Tauno Williams írta:
> >> Quoting Gémes Géza <geza at kzsdabas.hu>:
> >>>>> But OpenLDAP stores all these database attributes that have nothing
> >>>>> to do with Samba that all these other applications rely on? What if
> >>>>> an infrastructure keeps Samba 3 Servers in place in some locations
> >>>>> for compatibility reasons? The scary part is OpenLDAP going away.
> >>> I'm currently experimenting a similar upgrade scenario, where an
> >>> OpenLDAP+Heimdal+Samba3 controlled domain would get upgraded to Samba4.
> >>> My Heimdal+OpenLDAP critical apps are:
> >>> OpenAFS
> >>> SSH
> >>> Apache+mod_krb5
> >>> PowerDNS (ldap module)
> >>> ISC DHCPD (with an ldap database)
> >>> Sudoers
> >>
> >> Were you using RFC2307/NIS schema for posixUser uid/gid information? 
> >> I'm still researching how to migrate that information - I'd like to
> >> keep the host configurations as similar as possible.
> >>
> >>
> > I've almost forget there is an excelent article about that:
> > http://phaedrus77.blogspot.com/2010/04/samba4-ad-domain-controller-to-serve.html
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Geza
> I've also forgot to mention that samba3+winbind can successfully use the
> rfc2307 attributes from samba4 (just samba4's winbind is ignoring them
> (I hope that is going to change))

Patches are very welcome, we just have not managed it quite yet.

Andrew Bartlett

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