[Samba] Samba interface for administrative tools

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Rhys Goodwin wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
> 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?
>  
> Hope Im not on a different wave length to the rest of you! :)

One of the things Beast and I were talking about is the
separation needed between the access protocol and the
data storage interface.  I am in favor of using LDAP for
sharing configuration data between servers.  It doesn't
make sense to me as the configuration repository for a
single server though except in very specific circumstances.

That said, I would expect to see more work in this area
as time goes on.  There's no definite design or timeline
for integrating configuration data with an LDAP directory
service, but there is interest.




cheers, jerry
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