[Samba] Samba 4 / idmap / NIS / winbind

[steve]

On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 10:57 +0000, Vogel, Sven wrote:
> @Rowland and @Steve
> 
> Choclate fire guard... :) you wrote own scripts to add the rfc2307 information to the users?
> 
> I know SLES is not the best. It was not my decision. I use mostly redhat/centos. I will try sssd. Maybe thats the best choice for connection to the ad.
> 
> Maybe it is not correct but when you read on this side. Below....
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn303411.aspx 
> 
> The Server for Network Information Service (NIS) is deprecated. This includes the associated administration tools in Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT). Use native LDAP, Samba Client, Kerberos, or non-Microsoft options.

That's what I thought, but the Samba devs tell me otherwise:
https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2014-May/181643.html
Dunno. Just don't get used to managing UNIX from windows. I think the
rfc2307 will always be there, just not point and click as it is now.
Just our €0.02
Steve