On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 14:13 -0400, Dirk H Bartley wrote: > Greetings > > I am nearing being prepared to get our corporate network from Active > Directory to samba3 with ldap. The last hurdle is to get an > administrative interface to the ldap repository containing the users and > Groups. I,m hoping for some recommendations. > > I have attempted the following. > > Samba Console: > http://imc.sourceforge.net/samba-console.html > The difficulty I'm having is that it is recommended to install from rpm. > Our samba servers are gentoo distributions and hence not rpm > distributions. I attemted installing from source but after a good few > hours of effort ran into some difficulty that I figured may take more > time than I have to resolve. > > Gosa: > https://gosa.gonicus.de/ > I've gotten this to work, somewhat. It required me to change my tree > structure slightly but it is running. It also requires the addition of > objectclasses in ldap which I had difficulty finding documentation for. > It also behaves in such a way that when I edit a user with a dn of > uid=username,ou=People.. it deletes the object and adds an object with a > dn of cn=First last,ou=People.... and the objectclasses and attributes > that I have that gosa does not recognize in the user object are then > gone. (heimdal kerberos keys specifically). > > LAM: > http://lam.sourceforge.net/ > Installed this and I may have set it up incorrectly but I do not see an > interface to change group membership. Looks like this is intended as a > supplement to some other method of managing membership?? > > User Manager for domains: > Call me old fashioned but I'm just a bit afraid of counting on a > microsoft product to manage users, groups and group membership. > > What I'm looking for is for some anecdotes on the most practical > interface to succeed at this. I'd be perfectly comfortable with just > writing a few perl scripts and using a generic ldap interface. The > issue is that there are 3 other admins here that would not be > comfortable with that. > > I'll struggle through any of these or others to get it to work. Even if > it takes modifying one to get what I am looking for. Right now I feel > like I am struggling through all of them and not getting where I would > like to be. Looking for advice. > > Once again, thank you in advance for all recommendations. ---- check out the samba wiki...
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