There's lots of howtos and mailling list posts about creating a PDC with samba and LDAP. What I want to do is to continue with workgroup operation (at least until all our clients are NT). All I essentially want to do is to move the smbpasswd file on our 30 or so servers to LDAP (after sorting out nss and PAM). Can I do this?
Also we have a replicated LDAP directory provided by our openldap servers - one master updating 29 slaves. The slaves (running samba) our not allowed to update the master server. Is this is a problem for samba/LDAP operation? Obviously account and password changes need to be done on the master server but this is desirable for us. I think the PDC + LDAP solution means that the LDAP directory is written to by samba upon each user login - this wouldn't be desirable for us as 30 servers on slow WAN links would be updated every user login. The local smbpasswd file doesn't seem to be updated at the moment when someone logs in - so I'm assuming a workgroup + LDAP solution wouldn't be a problem for us in this regard. Also - is there any way to use a custom schema or perform schema mapping? I'm using samba 2.2.8a on the 29 slave servers - I prefer not to update to samba 3 if it's not required. Any help appreciated. Pete. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
