[Samba] samba & ldap

[Edmundo Valle Neto]

Charles Marcus escreveu:
> 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...

Depends of what is needed, in my opinion if an user must have the same 
password in samba AND any other service, use LDAP.

Regards.

Edmundo Valle Neto