[Samba] Sync Samba AD to OpenLDAP

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Mon Feb 1 18:42:47 UTC 2021


On Mon, 2021-02-01 at 14:45 +0100, basti via samba wrote:
> 
> On 01.02.21 13:51, Rowland penny via samba wrote:
> > On 01/02/2021 12:00, basti via samba wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > is there a way to sync Samba AD to a openLDAP Server?
> > > 
> > 
> > Sort of depends on what you mean by sync, you can sync user
> > passwords 
> > from Samba AD to openldap and I suppose you could create a script
> > to 
> > find AD users & groups and then create them in openldap, but it
> > wouldn't 
> > be 'syncing'
> > 
> > What do you have in openldap that you cannot put into AD?
> 
> I have a Windows AD here and want to build a failover/HA with open 
> source if possible. So that the mail server for example can find
> users 
> if the MS AD is rebooting or down.

Sounds like a fine use for Samba.  Perhaps you haven't heard that Samba
is an Open Source AD DC?

Andrew Bartlett

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