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Re: Samba4 LDAP Integration

Subject: Re: Samba4 LDAP Integration
From: "Stefan (metze) Metzmacher"
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 21:46:52 +0200
Gémes Géza schrieb:
No, the real point is not to have to move from OpenLDAP based Posix+Samba+other attributes to Samba4's LDAP server based Samba attributes+Something else (e.g. flat files :-( ). Instead IMHO a Samba4 LDAP server based central storage would be the best solution to this.

this: are my current plans with the samba4 LDAP server:

- use the same authentification schema as the MS ADS server.
  that means acls are ntSecurityDescriptors.

- implmenent the directory partition so that replication per partition
  is possible.

- it'll use the DRSUAPI multimaster replication,
  so it will be possible to have samba4 and w2k(3) dc's together.

- export the LDAP server on ports: 389 (plain) and 636 (ssl)
- export the Global Catalog via LDAP on port 3268 (plain) and 3269 (ssl)

- use the schema partition for managing the schema(like w2k3 do)

- finaly make the use of the MS admin tools possible

- maybe implement the LDAP syncrepl controls to do pull replication with 
OpenLDAP
  Servers (but maybe only for the samba4:provider openldap:consumer case)

- the server will be able to support plugins for the 'ldapsrv_partition' 
interface
  so that different implmentation for specific directory partitions are 
possible.


For backward compat with old samba3+openldap installations: I think
1.)- we should think about a samba3 like design:
     a samr dcerpc server pipe which stores the data in the openldap server.
     (and don't activate the samba4 LDAP server in this case)
   - and if needed use a directory partition plugin to act as proxy to the 
openldap server
2.)- or use a ldb plugin to for the proxing and mapping of the attributes.


--
metze

Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org> www.samba.org

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