[Samba] Samba4: rfc2307 compatibility with Samba3

Rowland Penny rpenny at f2s.com
Sun Aug 12 07:33:21 MDT 2012


On 12/08/12 12:44, steve wrote:
> On 12/08/12 09:31, steve wrote:
>> On 08/11/2012 01:10 PM, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2012-08-11 at 11:21 +0200, Helmut Hullen wrote:
>>>> Hallo, Andrew,
>>>>
>>>> Du meintest am 11.08.12:
>>>>
>
>> Hi
>> Does this mean having one Samba4 machine as the DC and another Samba4
>> (e.g. Vbox) machine joined to it as a member to act as fileserver?
>> Cheers,
>> Steve
>>
>
> But hang on. That wouldn't work either. Would we need to completely 
> ditch s3fs for rfc2307 to work? What's wrong with nss-ldapd instead, 
> or in the meanwhile until winbind and s3fs catches up?
>
> How would I setup the a recommended, official Samba fileserver? Is it 
> a Samba 3.6 machine on VBox?
>
> Normally, I create a user on the DC, give him rfc2307 classes and 
> attributes and create his home directory.
>
> When the user is created, I also create the whole of his login to both 
> Linux and windows machines. I can do that with the DC and fileserver 
> as the same machine by bypassing winbind and using nss-pam-ldapd. All 
> the user has to do is choose whether to use a Linux or windows box.
>
> Confused. . .
> Cheers, Steve
>
Have you considered winbind and pam-mount? With this you can mount the 
users homedir from the server on the client. Also with groups you can 
mount different homedirs based on what group the user is in.

Rowland


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