[Samba] FreeIPA + samba 4, any news?

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Mon May 10 19:21:16 MDT 2010


On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 11:06 -0700, Juan Pablo Lorier wrote:
> Hi people,
> 
> I'm trying to move from windows PDC to samba, and I'm waiting a bit
> until samba 4 gets a little more mature. What I also want to use is
> FreeIPA as I need an LDAP+Kerberos environment not only for samba but
> also for the rest of the services.
> Here is where I quite don't know really what is in samba's developers
> mind, so I don't know if I can use samba's ldap for multipurpose or
> need to build an ldap for the other services and then get samba to use
> it.

If the other services you want to use will talk to an AD-like schema,
there is no reason why you can't use Samba4 for that. 

> Any one to spread some light on this?
> Regards,

For information on FreeIPA, you are best to ask them.  I continue to
work with them to ensure that Fedora DS/'389' can work as a Samba4
backend, but beyond that I don't know their status (and it's not very
clear on their wiki).

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Cisco Inc.

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