Samba4: What does 'The Directory' mean?

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 03:52:15PM +0200, steve wrote:
> On 15/04/12 03:21, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> >On Sat, 2012-04-14 at 20:28 +0200, steve wrote:
> >>Hi everyone
> >>
> >>I'm the only English speaker on our team of testers over here.
>  All objects as seen over ldap have a DN, and are
> >in 'the directory'.
> >
> >When using in an unqualified sense, it does not generally refer to
> >folders on the filesystem.
> >
> >I hope this clarifies things.
> Here is my dn:
> 
> ldbsearch --url=/usr/local/samba/private/sam.ldb cn=steve2
> # record 1
> dn: CN=steve2,CN=Users,DC=hh3,DC=site
> cn: steve2
> instanceType: 4
> whenCreated: 20120407074614.0Z
> uSNCreated: 3733
> name: steve2
> objectGUID: 187297b2-c81e-4ef2-ad96-05e3bb895e6f
> badPwdCount: 0
> codePage: 0
> countryCode: 0
> badPasswordTime: 0
> lastLogoff: 0
> lastLogon: 0
> objectSid: S-1-5-21-1273361102-2413723601-2282298442-1108
> accountExpires: 9223372036854775807
> logonCount: 0
> sAMAccountName: steve2
> sAMAccountType: 805306368
> userPrincipalName: steve2 at hh3.site
> objectCategory: CN=Person,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=hh3,DC=site
> pwdLastSet: 129782583740000000
> userAccountControl: 512
> uidNumber: 3000002
> gidNumber: 1107
> unixHomeDirectory: /home2/MARINA/steve2
> loginShell: /bin/bash
> objectClass: top
> objectClass: posixAccount
> objectClass: person
> objectClass: organizationalPerson
> objectClass: user
> primaryGroupID: 1107
> profilePath: \\hh1\profiles\steve2
> homeDrive: Z:
> homeDirectory: \\hh1\home\steve2
> description: suseusers
> whenChanged: 20120407095752.0Z
> uSNChanged: 3769
> memberOf: CN=Domain Users,CN=Users,DC=hh3,DC=site
> memberOf: CN=teachers,CN=Users,DC=hh3,DC=site
> <snip>
> distinguishedName: CN=steve2,CN=Users,DC=hh3,DC=site
> 
> 
> ldbsearch --url=/usr/local/samba/private/sam.ldb cn=teachers
> # record 1
> dn: CN=teachers,CN=Users,DC=hh3,DC=site
> cn: teachers
> instanceType: 4
> whenCreated: 20120410125931.0Z
> uSNCreated: 3836
> name: teachers
> objectGUID: ca53f725-f74b-464e-9292-4c487e686727
> objectSid: S-1-5-21-1273361102-2413723601-2282298442-1119
> sAMAccountName: teachers
> sAMAccountType: 268435456
> groupType: -2147483646
> objectCategory: CN=Group,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=hh3,DC=site
> objectClass: top
> objectClass: posixGroup
> objectClass: group
> gidNumber: 1119
> memberUid: steve2
> <snip>
> member: CN=steve2,CN=Users,DC=hh3,DC=site
> <snip>
> whenChanged: 20120415070613.0Z
> uSNChanged: 3880
> distinguishedName: CN=teachers,CN=Users,DC=hh3,DC=site
> 
> steve2 uses Linux and windows computers.
> 
> He has attributes copied from openLDAP and rarely uses windows.
> 
> Could you do me a yes/no on:
> ¿Is steve2 part of the directory?
> ¿Is the teachers group part of the directory?
What do you mean with "is part of the directory" ?

You're retrieving this data from the directory, so in that sense it is
a part of the directory. This goes for everything you find by
using ldbsearch on those files.

Cheers,

Jelmer