[Samba] LDAP compatible

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 11:46 +0100, Tony Earnshaw wrote:
> Orlando de Sousa:
> 
> > i'm brasilian.
> 
> Beautiful, resonant and rhythmic language, pt_BR :)
> 
> > I'm sorry for the erros... ok?!  :-) Let's go! My company
> > uses openldap-2.1.21. What is the version samba compatible with
> > openldap-2.1.21?! I'm trying install samba-3.0.11, but it requires
> > openldap-2.2.23.  I don't want install the release openldap-2.2.23  for
> > it.
> 
> 1: LDAP is the be-all and end-all. If any service whatsoever does not work
> with LDAP, it is worthless, for me. For me, "LDAP" is synonymous with
> OpenLDAP.
> 
> 2: the only stable, recent version of OpenLDAP (as announced by
> openldap.org) is 2.2.13. OL 2.1.22 is demonstrably buggy and will
> ultimately fsck up your system. The latest, stable, version of 2.1 is
> 2.1.30 and even that is deprecated and obsolete (source: openldap.org).
> 
> 3: learn OpenLDAP before you learn Samba, Postfix, Courier IMAP, pam, nss,
> - whatever. Learn that OpenLDAP 2.2.23 needs Sleepycat BDB 4.2.52 (2 x
> patched), maybe Cyrus SASL 2.1.20. Furthermore, that you need to configure
> DB_CONFIG to use it at all.
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I'm quite certain that Tonni meant to say only stable version of
openldap is 2.2.23 and of course none of the current "distributions" of
Linux package that version yet.

Craig