Le Mardi 04 Novembre 2003 12:52 PM, Buchan Milne a �crit :
> The idea isn't stupid (in fact it is necessary IMHO in some situations),
> unfortunately CIFS doesn't currently support the features required for
> this to work. CIFS with unix extenstions is supposed support all unix
> filesystem semantics ... but this isn't the case yet.

Maybe, but I should have take it in considerations ...

> I have had some issues when a user is in a group which is the same as
> his username (default on many linux distributions), where group
> memberships aren't resolved correctly in some cases, so I can't run User
> Manager for Domains from a normal user account with Domain Admin at
> present (but the user does get Admin rights on the client).
>
> I haven't had time to document all the issues ...

I'm sure it will be welcome, whatever the date.

> Look in the source for kdebase, there is an ldap kioslave, and I think
> it uses an existing KLDAP interface (so if you haven't finished your
> libldap stuff, maybe you can save time?).

I was aware of it, but I wanted to do one from scratch to learn Qt as a STL 
library replacement ...

> IMHO, it should not be necessary to have a seperate GUI for this,
> kio_ldap can be viewed (partially) in Konqueror (a tree view doesn't
> work right). But, what is missing is a kpart for viewing/modifying LDIF
> files. If that were there, I think it might be feasible to edit
> attributes directly in Konqueror.

I've never use kparts, but editing ldif files is not a really hard stuff. I'll 
give a look at it.

> Of course, such a kpart would be useful if you were to do a standalone
> LDAP admin tool.

This my midle/long term target.

>
> And autofs-4.1 will make life even easier for this by supporting direct
> mounts ... I must get around to trying it ...
>
> Regards,
> Buchan

I'll do the same.

Regards,
S�bastien.


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