[Samba] Samba 4

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at vernstok.nl
Thu Aug 25 16:37:10 GMT 2005


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Farkas Levente wrote:

> Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
>
>> Farkas Levente wrote:
>>
>>> Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
>>>
>>>> Samba 4 does include its own LDAP Directory service and
>>>> Heimdal based KDC. The reasons for this are to get a working
>>>> implementation up and running. Later efforts will probably
>>>> focus more on integration of other 3rd party pieces
>>>
>>>
>>> this means, that samba4 has it's own build in ldap server which
>>> is neither OpenLDAP nor Fedora Directory Server?
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes. Written from scratch.
>
> this seems to me a bit of waste of resources:-(

There is a good reason for this: AD clients expect non-standard
behaviour from their LDAP server, so we can't just use OpenLDAP. The
Samba4 LDAP server can function pass thru requests to any other
standards-compliant LDAP server.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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