On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 17:34 -0400, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > I was reading up on the Linux Magazine overview of Samba 4.0 > (http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/67/Samba_4_Technical_Preview.pdf), > and noticed that Samba 4 was going to have its own LDAP backend ("LDB", > according to the article). Since I'm planning on rolling out LDAP > authentication at my site in the not-incredibly-distant-future, should I > consider using the Samba LDAP backend instead of OpenLDAP? Is there a > comparison of the two?
Currently there is no comparison, clearly any production deployment in the near future would have to be based on Samba 3.0, and it relies on an external LDAP server. When we get Samba4 to a release, then if you only wanted LDAP as a backend for Samba, then Samba4 will provide all you need. If you want other tools to use Samba4, you will need to look at what level of standards compliance each application expects, what schema is expected etc. Samba4 needs to aim for compatibility with windows clients first, standards second. This is very different from OpenLDAP's goals. All that said, we do hope to have a good, easily configured LDAP server as part of Samba4, useful to a wide variety of clients. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Student Network Administrator, Hawker College http://hawkerc.net
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