[Samba] SOS: removal of "--with-ldapsam" configuration option

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Peter Daum wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> when trying to upgrade my smb servers from older 3.x 
> versions to samba 3.0.23, I discovered, that (already
> in 3.0.22), the "--with-ldapsam" option has been removed.
> According to the corresponding entry in the
> release notes, this was "only used for backwards 
> compatibility for 2.2 smb.conf files". As far as
> I can see however, not only the configuration file
> syntax has changed, but support for the formerly
> used LDAP schema (objectclass "sambaAccount") has 
> been completely dropped. Is this true?

No.  This should still work

	passdb backend = ldapsam_compat:ldap://ldap.example.com/

But you should really start migrating to the new schema.
it will go away eventually.  We even provided migration scripts.
It's been almost 3 years now since 3.0.0 was released.  And
almost 2 since 2.2 was discontinued.





jerry
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