Samba4 as a general directory service?

[Charles Tryon]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Charles Tryon <charles.tryon at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Matthieu Patou <mat at samba.org> wrote:
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>> On 13/01/2012 08:07, Charles Tryon wrote:
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>>> 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)?
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>>>  Sure, Thunderbird support LDAP backend and Samba4 is providing an LDAP
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>> Just add a mail attribute to your samba4 users and they should pop up in
>> thunderbird, I would be very surprised if it didn't work as it used to work
>> in with the outlook LDAP backend for address books.
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> I'm assuming that it uses a secure connection (SSL), which implies port
> #636.  The base DN would be from my domain name.  What is the Bind DN,
> Scope, Search filter and Login method?
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OK, got it to work with:
 - Base DN: cn=users,dc=whatever,dc=org
 - Port: 389
 - NO ssl  (If I turn on SSL, Thunderbird rejects the cert as invalid!)
 - Bind DN: my username (domain\username)
 - Scope: subtree
 - search filter: (objectclass=*)
 - login method: Simple




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>> Matthieu.
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>> Matthieu Patou
>> Samba Team
>> http://samba.org
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>     Charles Tryon
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    Charles Tryon
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      "It's the job that's never started that takes longest to finish."
                                 -- Samwise Gamgee