On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 16:39 -0400, Charlie wrote: > Lots of folks have samba 3 running over OpenLDAP. Syncrepl is what > I'd use if I was setting it up today, but I have a very reliable and > mature implementation already running slurpd, so I am going to stick > with that for the moment. > As for multi-master, I agree with Zeilinga's comments on LDUP. Google > for "multimaster considered harmful" or read > http://www.openrowley.com/2006/10/05/is-multi-master-replication-really-harmful/ > if you don't know what I'm talking about.
OpenLDAP 2.4.x provides working multi-master (although I still think not nearly as many people need multi-master as think they do). <http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/replication.html#N-Way% 20Multi-Master%20replication> > We have one PDC and WINS server per physical site, which is more > reliable and fault-tolerant than anything else I've tried, but it does > make LDAP configuration a bit dicey since the Samba Team doesn't yet > understand why anyone would want to combine a unified authentication > infrastructure with geographically localized network control. Setting > up domain trusts with our configuration is tricky. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
