[Samba] Samba PDC, ldap or mysql????

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at vernstok.nl
Thu Aug 25 17:02:33 GMT 2005


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Hi Mark,

Mark Nehemiah wrote:

> I'd really like to understand the advantages/disadvantages of ldap
> vs mysql for backend. Would like our other *windows admins* to be
> able to add users,machines,groups etc. easily.
>
> I think I'd like best to store in mysql, but want to know if
> there's any functionality I'll miss using mysql instead of ldap.
> seems ldap for backend has been around a while.

The MySQL backend is currently still experimental. It's broken in
3.0.14a and 3.0.20, but we're working on fixing it. It also doesn't
have support for group mapping support (yet). If you have no specific
reasons for going with MySQL (such as already having another user
database in MySQL), I'd advice going with LDAP.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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