On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 03:41:04PM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 01:15:44AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 07:02:03PM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote:
> > > Please include samba.schema (in the examples/LDAP) directory in > > > samba-common at /etc/ldap/schema as this will make it simpler for > > > administrators to setup PDC and BDC synchronised with each other and/or > > > via a third LDAP machine. > > > I recommend samba-common as the package is lightwight enough that it can > > > be installed on an LDAP machine that wouldn't otherwise have anything > > > samba related on it. > > For my part, I would rather see a separate "smb-ldap" package to provide > > this schema file and other integration bits. I started on one once, but > > haven't gotten anywhere due to lack of time. > What would be the other integration bits that samba could provide? Assuming the DC and LDAP server are on the same system (the common case), autoconfiguration of the passdb backend; auto-loading of the schema file; autoconfiguration of LDAP credentials. > Most of my setup stuff has been dealing with smbldap-tools and > configuring it correctly with OpenLDAP; the only (other) Samba related > thing I had to do for LDAP was specifying the ldapsam as the passdb > backend -- and I can not really see a good way to manage that kind of > configuration stuff simply. I don't know that I ever specified "simple". :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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