[Samba] Protocol differences between RFC and Active Directory?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2022-03-17 at 21:54 +0100, HolyTaint via samba wrote:
> What are the protocol differences between RFC LDAP and Active
> Directory LDAP implementation that make hard if not impossible having
> OpenLDAP taking samba role as AD LDAP interface?
> Ex, single common name, then?

There are a lot.  The thing that trips up most is authenticated by
default, but the schema is just different, the typical layouts are
different.

If there are particular niggles that really annoy, we could take
patches provided they don't break AD behaviour, eg accepting the
OpenLDAP password change control.

Andrew Bartlett

-- 
Andrew Bartlett (he/him)       https://samba.org/~abartlet/
Samba Team Member (since 2001) https://samba.org
Samba Team Lead, Catalyst IT   https://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba

Samba Development and Support, Catalyst IT - Expert Open Source
Solutions