[Samba] Re: samba w/ ldap - groups scalability and performance

[Jim C.]

I have a suggestion.  I think you can partition off the groups by 
putting them in sub OU's of your groups OU.

Alternatively you could use some Balanceing Domain Controllers with 
disconnected authentication. This entails setting up Balanceing Domain 
Controllers, each with a local LDAP slave server. Makeking everything 
local (replicated from the main LDAP server) for each of your BDC's 
should improve performance as you can then have several machines 
answering requests for groups without them haveing to constantly query 
the main LDAP server.

> I am having problems with samba and ldap as concerns groups.  We have 
...
> perhaps only those groups where the user is a member?


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