[Samba] samba 4 winbind feature set

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Fri Mar 17 00:38:07 GMT 2006


On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 14:09 +1000, Greg Lehmann wrote:
> Hi All,
> 	Now that Microsoft have included the schema extensions (RFC 2307) for
> Unix in Active Directory with SP2 for Windows Server 2003, there is some
> potential for both the samba 4 server side and client side (winbind) to
> use these extra features to store and access a UID, GID, shell, Home
> directory etc. I have not managed to find any information on any plans
> to do this but would like to know if some of you have.

Yes, I expect the Samba4 will use a very similar schema to this.
Likewise, I don't think you will need to wait for Samba4 for the client
side to read these values, I think Samba 3.0 already has the
infrastructure for that.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College  http://hawkerc.net
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