[Samba] samba & ldap

[Charles Marcus]

On 5/15/2008 3:40 AM, Esteban Torres Rodriguez wrote:
>> I'm new here and I have a doubt... I'm work with windows 2003 server
>> and now i would change to llnux. My doubt regards the share of my
>> server: to authenticate my users what is better: samba tdb or ldap?
>> For us is not necessary an active directory, domain, ecc... I need
>> only a file server and I have arounud 400 users...Anyone have 
>> experience? Any suggestions?

> always ldap.

Not necessarily...

tdb is *very* fast and reliable, much simpler to set up and maintain,
and if you don't *need* all the bells and whistles of ldap (high
availability, SSO, etc), tdb is the better choice - at least in my
opinion...

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Best regards,

Charles