[Fedora-directory-users] Re: [Fedora Directory Users] Winsync woes

[Dimitri Yioulos]

On Wednesday August 3 2005 9:46 am, David Boreham wrote:
> >If I may be so bold as to take advantage of your knowledge and kindness -
> > when I created the Windows Sync Agreement, I specified the DS subtree as
> > ou=People,dc=headquarters,dc=mydomain,dc=com, and the Windows subtree as
> > cn=People,dc=headquarters,dc=mydomain,dc=com.  When the sync completed,
> > all Windows users and groups ended up in the FDS People subtree.  How
> > would I get Windows groups to populate the FDS gorups subtree, and only
> > users to populate the People subtree?
>
> In this current release it's not possible to do exactly what you want
> (at least I can't think of an easy way to to it). The problem is that there
> are two conventions for storing users vs. groups in the DIT: a) put
> users and groups in the same container and b) put users in one
> container and groups in a sibling container. You can deploy either
> convention in both AD and FDS, but in order to have an easy life
> in terms of Winsync, you need to use the _same_ convention on
> both sides.  Note that the fact that FDS has ou=People and ou=Groups
> is simply a convention in the sample data loaded on request at install
> time. You can easily adopt the same convention as is commonly used with AD:
> put users and groups in the same container. (AD didn't exist when
> we invented the ou=People, ou=Groups convention at Netscape way back).
>
> You _could_ defined two sync agreements : one to sync users and
> the other to sync groups. Problem is that you would be pointing both
> at the same subtree on the AD side and I believe that bad stuff would
> happen as a result (there's no way to tell an agreement to only sync
> groups, for example).

Perfectly understood.  Perhaps in suceeding versions ...

My whole purpose in getting FDS, and in particular Winsync, working is so that 
I don't have to create users on my email server.  Presently, I create a new 
user in ADS, then create that user on the mail server.  As I may have 
mentioned earlier, I could use winbind, but I think I'd prefer ldap.  So, my 
next step is to make Winsync/SSL work.  Again, I believe I followed the 
Winsync section of the Admin manual exactly.  The only section I didn't quite 
get - Configuring Windows Sync, Step2, which says to see the appropriate user 
documentation to configure SSL on Active Directory.  I couldn't find any info 
anywhere (which, of course, could be my doing).  Any ideas regarding getting 
Winsync/SSL to work.

Thanks.

Dimitri