[Samba] Is the smbldap-tools package no longer maintained?

[Rowland penny]

On 13/09/2019 18:30, Christopher Sean Hilton via samba wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 03:39:44PM +0100, Rowland penny via samba wrote:
>> On 13/09/2019 15:34, Marco Gaiarin via samba wrote:
>>> Mandi! Rowland penny via samba
>>>     In chel di` si favelave...
>>>
>>>>> 	https://github.com/fumiyas/smbldap-tools
>>>> Even that points to gna.org:
>>> Ok, but GNA is closed, now, and this has commits (seems imported from
>>> GNA) until 2016...
>>>
>> That is three years ago and all it would take is for Perl to do what Python
>> did and release a new version. This could irretrievably break
>> smbldap-tools.
>>
> Thanks for the help everyone.
>
> It looks like the 0.9.11 tarball that I have in my cache is the last
> ever published version. I may pull fumiyas' git repo in and publish a
> branch/pull request/whatever for historical reason but it looks like
> the project is no longer maintained because it's been superceded by
> something better.
>
> For me, I'm not using AD domains because I'm mostly not using
> Windows. My network is OS X and Unix with some Samba to share printers
> and make things that want very old style CIFS shares (media players,
> etc) work. However, I do know LDAP so I was using smbldap-tools to
> create a unified login for my users e.g. your "Windows password" was
> also your email password and your DAV share password... I'll try out
> the new hotness as some point to see what it's about.
>
>
> Thank you again!
>
You don't have to use windows to use Samba AD, it works well with Unix 
and it easier to provision than it is to set up an NT4-style domain.

You don't have to install and configure ldap, but you do get an ldap server.

You get kerberos.

You get a DNS server.

It works well with Unix and more importantly, it is in active 
development ;-)

Try it, you might actually like it.

Typed on my Unix domain member.

Rowland