[Samba] Samba AD API

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Wed Aug 1 14:35:08 UTC 2018


On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 16:26:37 +0200
Michal via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> We need to create/update users from our web app (PHP). We are used to
> use standard PHP LDAP functions (ldapmodify) to manage users in our
> actual samba3 NT4 style LDAP domain.
>   Can we continue to use these functions against samba AD server

Seeing as AD uses different objectclasses and attributes, probably not
as is, but you should be able to re-write.

> or
> we should use some smarter, dedicated AD API? 

You could use ADUC on windows.

>Is AD LDAP only place,
> where user informations are being stored?

Yes

Rowland





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