Samba4 as a general directory service?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 11:07 -0500, Charles Tryon wrote:
> Is it possible to expose the Samba4 directory as a general purpose
> directory?  For example, can I point my Thunderbird address book at the
> server to look up people (assuming I take the time to actually put the
> information there)?

Yes.  You will have to authenticate to connect, and it will be best if
you can use the AD schema to store the info (rather than extending it,
as our schema extension logic isn't finished, and so is disabled).

Andrew Bartlett

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