[Samba] Samba and LDAP backend - howto docs problems?

Adam Williams adam at morrison-ind.com
Wed Mar 10 19:10:51 GMT 2004


> I find it very frustrating when I get to configure some software and it 
> tells me "so what would you like to do?". Being a new user of that 
> software, my most sensible answer is "what would you recommend I do?". 
> To which the software replies "anything at all, I can do anything at all".
> Samba + LDAP is usually practically deployed with a third party LDAP 
> maintenance package. If a suggested layout for the LDAP server existed 
> that made it easier for the maintenance package and Samba to be looking 
> in the same place for things, it would save the administrator a lot of 
> time. Yes, I would like the rope to be able to change my mind, if I 
> didn't agree with the layout of the directory by default, however I want 
> at least a suggested default layout so I can start with something.

If your interested in the layout of the DSA, etc... and some examples
you can look at -
ftp://ftp.kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/EDManual.pdf
- thats a copy of most of our internal documentation.  The copy is old
at this point, but maybe helpful with such things.



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