[Samba] Samba interface for administrative tools

[Beast]

Rhys Goodwin wrote:
> Hey Guys, 
>  It seems to me that the very best place to store all samba conf options is 
> in the ldap dir. I got all excited when I was taking a look at the samab3 
> schema and saw the sambaConfigOption objectclass, found out that is not 
> implimented yet. Maybe Im being a bit narrow minded to assume that everyone 

Currently not all information are stored in ldap (using ldapsam), afaik 
smb.conf is server dependants, hence not appropriate if stored in ldap.

> is using an ldap back end? I like the idea of being able to whip up a very 
> tidy windows based (MMC?) samba console and requiring only ldap connection 
> to the server and be able to FULLY control samba. Perhaps smbd could be 
> setup to be quite particular about when and how it would reaload options 
> from the directory? 

Not all users are using ldapsam, so this tool will not work for smba 
backend other than ldapsam.


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