[Samba] Classic upgrade - no email addresses
John Gardeniers
jgardeniers at objectmastery.com
Mon Aug 31 21:18:40 UTC 2015
Hi Rowland,
Perhaps I misled you with my wording. Each user has just one email
address, which was not migrated across. From where I'm sitting that
looks like a very serious bug.
regards,
John
On 31/08/15 19:07, Rowland Penny wrote:
> On 31/08/15 07:27, John Gardeniers wrote:
>> I've been running through a bunch of tests after migrating from
>> Samba > 3 to Samba 4 and only just noticed that the user email
>> addresses >
> didn't come across from openldap. Is this a know issue or is this an >
> isolated case? > > regards, John > >
>
> It is not so much an issue but a problem, with openldap, the 'mail'
> attribute can appear multiple times, with AD it is single valued. If
> you have users with more than one email address, how is the upgrade to
> know which is the main one, if in fact you refer to one as the main
> one ? There is another attribute you can use to store email address
> 'otherMailbox' , but you may be better off investigating mail servers
> like zarafa that can authenticate via AD.
>
> Rowland
>
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