[Samba] Using LDAP with samba

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 10:29, Yura Pismerov wrote:
> 
> 
> Caleb O'Connell wrote:
> > 
> > is it possible and how difficult is it, to use LDAP for all the user
> > accounts and groups and password management? would this be something you
> > would want to do? or is it better to stick with samba's initila way of
> > dealing with users?
> 
> It depends. It definitely makes sense if you already have LDAP setup
> and/or if you are looking for centralized account management (same
> username/password for Windows, Unix, Mail, etc.). Also it is feasible to
> do if you are going to set up Samba BDC.
> Please keep in mind that Samba "exercise" LDAP directory pretty hard.
> Also think about
> having redundant setup - multiple LDAP replicas with a load balancer
> (hardware or software).

Samba 3.0 just got a lot better in that regard, but yes, we do hit LDAP
pretty hard.

(We now cache connections, avoid unnecessary writes and don't go
Get_Pwnam() on each returned entry).

Andrew Bartlett

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