[Samba] File server and AD

[Rowland Penny]

On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 11:18:43 +0200
Roland Gruber via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hi Rowland,
> 
> On 23.09.2016 22:37, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> >> In NT4 use the "lam" for management. Can I use ldap account manager
> >> for managing Samba4 ADDC or should only use the RSAT? Or is
> >> possible using both?
> >>
> > 
> > Yes, you can use LAM, the only problem that I am aware of (if you
> > can call it a problem) it adds the totally un-required posix
> > objectclasses.
> 
> there is an option to not add this object class in LAM. ;-) Please
> note that there might be applications that require this object class.
> 
> 

If there are applications that rely on the posix objectclasses being in
AD, then they are broken, Windows ADUC never added them and now
Samba doesn't either.

Rowland