[Samba] Samba 4 / idmap / NIS / winbind

[steve]

On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 12:25 +0100, Rowland Penny wrote:
> On 09/06/14 11:57, Vogel, Sven wrote:
> > @Rowland and @Steve
> >
> > Choclate fire guard... :) you wrote own scripts to add the rfc2307 information to the users?
> 
> Yes, several versions, lately I am using a set of scripts based on 
> ldapscripts but using the ldbtools instead.
> 
+1 for the roll your own.
> >
> > 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.
> RHEL is know for being very stable, this is down to not being very 
> uptodate, SLES should be very very stable, after all it is based on an 
> even older base ;-)
I took on a sles setup. The best I could get was to persude them to go
openSUSE. It's not ideal, but at least you stand more of a chance with
something which resembles modernity. The suse dev flatly refuses to
accept anything AD and Samba.
Cheers,
Steve