[Samba] Ideas how to use Samba 4 AD and still offer standard LDAP authentication?

[Kurt Martinsen]

Well I just wasn't able to figure out the correct attributes. Do you have an idea what the corresponding fields would be in samba ad for say like this configuration: http://imgur.com/xyr8gtu taken from Atlassian Crowd (just an example)?

Regards,

Kurt

> On 17.4.2014, at 1.59, Jonathan Buzzard <jonathan at buzzard.me.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On 16/04/14 21:26, kurt at a-netti.com wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have a working Samba 4 AD which is used by Windows clients. I also
>> have an LDAP server for use with Linux servers and web applications.
>> 
>> What I really need is the Samba 4 AD to be the single maintained
>> authentication database while providing an LDAP compatible server for
>> web applications (and preferably Linux). I've looked at extending the
>> Samba 4 schema, but that doesn't seem very easy (or even possible to
>> maintain?).
>> 
>> Any ideas on how to do this? I don’t mind running an extra LDAP server
>> as long as I have a way to sync the user accounts and groups from the
>> Samba AD.
> 
> Microsoft AD and hence Samba AD are in essence LDAP servers, abait with a particular schema  and you can for the most part interface with them just as if they where. Certainly as far as any web applications a Samba AD server can be treated like a LDAP server.
> 
> What in particular makes you think that this is not the case?
> 
> 
> JAB.
> 
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