[Samba] Re: explain me exactly about ldap

[Kang Sun]

I don't how much you know about Samba or LDAP. Any way, Use samba to be an
authenticator for Windows and Window Users, you need a Unix accounts for
each machine and user. In the old day, these are store in /etc/password and
some other flat files.

With ldap as a backend, you store everything (Unix account and windows
account) in a directory and there are tools like smdldap-tools to
synchronize the creations of both types of accounts and mapping between
them.

LDAP also make samba-BDC possible because you can have a second LDAP server
that BDC associate with.

Hope this helps.

-- Kang
"Cristhian Nunez" <cnunez at agbcdi.com> wrote in message
news:1090914745.3484.6.camel at crismandrake...

Hi

i wanna know exactly the principal functions of ldap, if is posible send
me a example because im not very clear about this protocol with samba.

thanks in advance

Cristhian
Dominican Republic



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