[Samba] Samba LDAP caching when LDAP server unavailable - possible?

Tomasz Chmielewski mangoo at wpkg.org
Wed Jan 18 19:50:42 GMT 2006


ANTHONY JOSEPH MESSINA schrieb:
> could you set up a small instance of an ldap server along with samba on 
> this small box and have it act like a bdc?

That would be great indeed - the problem is, there is no OpenLDAP server 
port to that thingy yet :)


> you could set up openldap to 
> do syncrepl and have a full copy of your samba domain stuff that's in 
> ldap.  if the connection goes down, the ldap stuff is there and if you 
> have it set up like a bdc, you can still login, etc.

Yep, that's how it's normally done.


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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