Question: Ldap Future

[Jean Francois Micouleau]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 fischerdr at mindspring.com wrote:

> Currently in the Samba_2_2_2 tree we are able to use ldapsam for auth
> but in the current tree and Samba_3_0 the "--with-ldapsam" no longer
> works.

it's broken ? I'll take a look then.

  I take it that with the new backend rewrite is the reason that
> this is broken but my question is since some people are really pushing
> for ADS support is LDAPSAM no longer going to be a option??

it will still be an option. It will be the second preferred backend. I'm
pushing to have tdb_sam as the first backend for 3.0 and remove
the smbpasswd file.

  if this
> is so what would the migration path for non 2K machines??? I currently
> don't hold the right skills to help bring forward the code to 3.0 but
> am willing to help any way i can.
>
> P.S I would like to say a BIG thanks to all the Samba teams that put
> so much hard work into help us tech people intergrate our enviroments
>
> Thanks again,
> David R. Fischer
> Sprint E|Solutions
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