[Samba] Re: Samba/LDAP Question

[Brian May]

>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Thompson <smt at vgersoft.com> writes:

    Steve> I second this. The syncrepl stuff appears to be as solid as
    Steve> a rock and is very easy to set up; waaaaaay better than the
    Steve> old slurpd. I went from a master and no slaves to a master
    Steve> and two slaves, using syncrepl (my very first time with
    Steve> syncrepl), in under an hour. I have since added a third
    Steve> slave in about 15 minutes. This setup has been running for
    Steve> about 12 months now with no problems at all (OpenLDAP
    Steve> 2.3.32 on CentOS 4.5, x86_64). I have a fairly small setup:
    Steve> about 6000 dn's, and about 250 Linux, Mac and Windows
    Steve> clients, spread out across two slaves, and each slapd uses
    Steve> about 15-20 minutes of CPU time per day (Xeon 5160,
    Steve> 3.0GHz). No-one ever queries the third slave: I just shut
    Steve> slapd down on it four times a day, slapcat the database as
    Steve> a backup, and restart slapd. Never needed the backup.

Looks like that tutorial I used based on slurpd was obsolete :-(.

However, unless I am mistaken, nothing changes the point I was making
that I can't change the LDAP data without the master up and running
(openldap).
-- 
Brian May <bam at snoopy.apana.org.au>