[Freeipa-devel] using with samba

[William Baker]

I've seen Penrose before, but never really understood a good use case 
for it.  In this context, maybe it will make more sense.  I'll look at 
it seriously.

bbaker

> One of the things we were considering for AD integration you are 
> looking for is to use Penrose virtual directory with IPA. But we have 
> not quite figured out how to glue things together.
> The idea was that Penrose can provide solution for mapping Samba and 
> IPA DSs trees to each other. We were even thinking about taking pieces 
> from Samba and adding them to virtual directory.
> In this case Penrose could have been a front end to IPA from the 
> prospective of the AD integration.
> May be this would help.
> http://docs.safehaus.org/display/PENROSE/Home.
>
> If you have any Samba specific questions you can ask Gunther Deschner 
> - he is our Samba team member.
> I CC him on this mail.
>
> Thank you
> Dmitri
>
> William Baker wrote:
>>
>> I guess my "primary goal" is not well defined.  Broadly, it would be 
>> samba integration.  I'll download the current development tree and 
>> see what pops out.  I'm interested in seeing the new plugin interface.
>>
>> Let's say I wanted to make Samba 3.2 run as PDC using FreeIPA.  Sound 
>> reasonable?
>> I'm not sure what's in Samba 3.3 yet.  I think it's the Franky 
>> release, but would appreciate clarification if anyone knows.
>>
>> bbaker
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> You touched on a lot of different issues in one e-mail.
>>> I will try to comment inline.
>>
>> Sorry :)
>