[Samba] Best way to integrate Unix with AD.

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Tue Mar 14 14:43:47 UTC 2017


On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 14:20:57 +0000
"A. James Lewis" <james at fsck.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> OK, I stand corrected... I was sure the last time I looked there it 
> assumed you have a Windows machine to administer the environment.... 
> which I don't, but it seems that this assumption is no longer the
> case.
> 
> Is this the most sensible approach?... I've heard talk of directory 
> tools that maintain a meta level directory and present it as either
> AD or whatever you need for another environment...
> 
> One thing I'm not sure about, is if the RFC2307 schema in AD includes 
> automounter information, for autofs?...
> 

Not as standard, but the wiki has a page for it:

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_AD_schema_extensions

Rowland



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