[Samba] Samba 4

[Cédric CACHAT]

Thank all of you for your answers. As Jerry suggested, I'll hook up with 
the samba-technical list to have more comments on the ongoing samba4 
development.

Cédric

Gerald (Jerry) Carter a écrit :

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>>>>Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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>>>>>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
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>>>>this means, that samba4 has it's own build in ldap server which is
>>>>neither OpenLDAP nor Fedora Directory Server?
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>>>Yes.  Written from scratch.
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>>this seems to me a bit of waste of resources:-(
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>Initially attempts were made to integrate with the OpenLDAP
>code.  That turned into a roadblock for all AD development.
>So rather than block everything else, Samba 4 needed an LDAP
>server that would let developers experiment and find out if
>what they were working on was even possible.  So bypassing
>the OpenLDAP code was a necessary hack.
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>Now another goal of Samba 4 is easier setup.  So tridge
>things that a turn key solution is better than requiring
>Samba 4 admins to be kerberos and LDAP experts is important.
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>But like I said, if you want to find out more, should you
>really take it up on samba-technical.  You'll have a much
>broader audience there rather than just me or possible
>Andrew Bartlett.
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>cheers, jerry
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