Dariush Forouher wrote: > > Hello, > > does 3.0 still need unix accounts for machine trust accounts? This would > be nice, because AFAIR in LDAP they can be placed into another > directory. If no, must there be some magic options present in smb.conf? > > Another question: Is it possible to give samba 3.0 more than one ldap > servers to get more redundance? If yes, works this with 2.2 too?
Have you ever thought that Samba needs read/write access to the directory, not just read only ? In this case, how would you synchronize multiple LDAP replicas ? Usually LDAP uses one way replication mechanism. That means you always do changes (writings) to the master replica, then the changes are being propagated to other (read-only) replicas. Many LDAP implementations support referral mechanism, so writing can be directed to any replica including read-only and they will be automatically redirected to the master server. So LDAP redundancy has usually nothing to do with client implementation - it is up to a system administrator to create proper redundant LDAP farm using either software solutions (various VRRP implementations), or real (hardware) load balaning devices. If you propose built-in redundancy feature for Samba it should imply read-only operations only. For read-write ones you still need to use master replica LDAP instance. So IMHO it does not make much sense at this point. > > ciao > Dariush > -- > PGP Fingerprint: 0x886C99A1 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba