Is there a change however you can just choose a different datastore in the config file though? so you can choose to use the built in ldap or to just use an openLDAP datastore. The ldap scheme I imagine would stay the same, just the database itself and the ldap program itself ldb samba4 is giong to be using. I was just curious for obvious reasons.
Tony Earnshaw wrote: > lør, 21.05.2005 kl. 14.46 skrev Andrew Bartlett: > >> > > if anyone knows. Will I have the option to use OpenLDAP >> > > still for all the new features so as to be able to use current apps >> > > that >> > > use OpenLDAP already? If anyone has info regarding this, it would be >> > > appreciated. >> > >> > As far as I'm concerned, if Samba suddenly stops working with the >> > site-wide LDAP database that I already use for umpteen other site-wide >> > services, then Samba rots out, not the other services (pam Unix and gdm >> > authentication and login, e-mail, printer quota, etc.) >> >> Discussion about the design of Samba4 is welcome over on the samba- >> technical list. > > I'll subscribe and take a look. > >> Samba4 is taking on a very different tack from previous >> versions, particularly from a database schema perspective (needing to be >> able to express an generalised LDAP server holding an AD-compatible >> schema as one interface). >> >> My hope is that ideas of schema mapping, and meta directory technologies >> will be placed behind the 'ldb' pluggable interaface (which currently >> supports both local db and ldap backends). >> >> But I strongly suspect that existing Samba 3.0 LDAP sites will find a >> migration to an initial Samba4 release quite difficult. > > It would be good to know in what way ... >> We will provide >> migration tools, but if you (rightly) don't want to turn your LDAP >> directory upside down, it will be hard. > > I wonder in what way ... > >> That's why I'm talking about >> schema mapping and metadirectories, we need the directory to look >> different to different clients. > > Thanks for taking the time. > > --Tonni > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
