[Samba] Authenticate Samba with an LDAP w/o the schema

[Kevin Keane]

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> From: samba-bounces at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-
> bounces at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Fabrizio Reale
> Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 5:37 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Samba] Authenticate Samba with an LDAP w/o the schema
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Kevin Keane wrote:
> 
> > There are a few ways you could do it, but none of them are good.
> 
> I asked it because I do it with other tools like Plone.
> And they just need to use use the LDAP bind service.

The reason Samba can't use the LDAP bind approach is that Samba doesn't have access to the plain-text passwords because by default Windows no longer sends it over the network. That is, unless you follow my first suggestion and turn off CHAP.