[Fedora-directory-devel] Fedora Directory and Samba4

[Pete Rowley]

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> [mailto:fedora-directory-devel-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf 
> Of Chen Shaopeng
> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 5:38 PM
> To: Fedora Directory server developer discussion.
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-directory-devel] Fedora Directory and Samba4
> 
> Since we already have a posixAccount, an ntUser, etc, isn't 
> it possible to add something similar, with all the quirks and 
> oddities for an AD user account, and with all the weird 
> matching rules? And maybe with the help of a few plugins? Or 
> is the Windows client requirements so convoluted that it is 
> near darn impossible to achieve with the current FDS or OpenLDAP?

I wouldn't say it were impossible, and FDS is remarkably suited as a
starting point given it's plugin architecture and virtual attribute
capability, but it is certainly not trivial.  I suspect also that it is
undesireable to spend too much time making one ldap server look like AD,
when samba could make all ldap servers look like ad, and use additional ldap
server support for the task where it is available i.e. concentrate on the
things that kill performance as a result of being a proxy.


> 
> I just downloaded Andrew's thesis yesterday, didn't have time 
> to read yet (will do over the weekend).
> 
> I'd really love to see Samba4 act as an AD, and be 
> transparent to all clients.
> 
> *note to self: need to learn more about this issue*
> 
> rgds
> 
> csp
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