On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:59:14PM +0000, John H Terpstra wrote: > > What Samba should do by default is read LDAP parameters from ldap.conf, > > with the option to override the parameters if the admin so chooses, thus > > making Samba easy and straightforward for the admin to use out the box. > > You are assuming that Samba only needs to work with OpenLDAP. You are also > assuming that ALL OpenLDAP configurations use the same directory > structure. Too many assumptions. How can we implement a universal > solution? What must we do to arrive at nirvana?
That's something a vendor could/should do, perhaps. The vendor knows where he puts the configuration files, what they look like, etc. > Out of the review process for the "Samba-3 by Example" book has come > incessant requests (demand) for better documentation on OpenLDAP. A book > called "OpenLDAP by Example" is presently being written. hey, great :) I hope you also touch BDB issues :) -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
