nscd? Chris St. Pierre Unix Systems Administrator Nebraska Wesleyan University
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > I've been using Samba with OpenLDAP with great success on normal servers. > > Recently however, it appeared to us that for remote locations it is more > economically viable to replace Samba servers with Samba running on little > routers like ASUS WL-500g with openwrt firmware/software. > It has a broadcom/mipsel CPU, and thanks to openwrt (http://openwrt.org), it > is > possible to run lots of software on it. > > Pretty nice for small offices - small, no fan, no hard disk etc. other moving > parts (you can connect a USB stick to it if you want to store files/profiles). > > There is one glitch however - no OpenLDAP port. > > So a Samba domain controller running on these tiny routers would have to > authenticate users users against an external OpenLDAP server (probably in the > company headquaters). > > My experience shows that a company with several branches located throughout > the > city/country/world have connectivity problems from time to time (especiall > when > there is no IT staff in the branches). > > With no local LDAP server this would mean users not able to work (as they > can't > authenticate). > > Is it possible to set up Samba to "cache" credentials retrieved from the LDAP, > and when LDAP is unavailable, to use these cached credentials? > > > -- > Tomasz Chmielewski > http://wpkg.org > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
