Andrew Bartlett wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 21:22 -0200, Andreas Hasenack wrote: > >>Em Terça 08 Novembro 2005 08:34, Andrew Bartlett escreveu: >> >>>>3) Configure Samba4 to use FDS as it's database >>> >>>This is where I want to go. I hate 'sync' systems with a passion, so I >> >>You have lost me here. Why do you want FDS as your database and not, say, >>openldap? And what happened to the internal ldap server in samba4? > > > So, Samba4's LDAP server is what will need to be seen by windows > clients, as they have very, very specific requirements, not met by any > existing free solutions. > > However, Samba has the need for backend storage of it's data, and this > can either be in a local flat file, or in *another* LDAP server. My > hope is that this would allow Samba to be a front-end to a larger > organisational directory, which is where I see FDS fitting in. > > (I've not discussed OpenLDAP in this context yet, but no doubt I will > have similar discussions with interested people on that team at some > point). > So, if I understand this well, for a fully integrated solution, you are going to have 2 LDAP servers, one is the internal built-in LDAP server for storing Windows client stuff, and a second LDAP server (FDS in this case), for everything. If that's the case, why can't you come up with a schema (that can be added into any standard LDAP server) that will satisfy all Windows client needs, and put everything into FDS? I'm lost too. rgds csp -- Chen Shaopeng http://www.idsignet.com
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