On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 15:57 +0200, Roland Schwingel wrote: > Hi Michael... > > > Disclaimer: I am just a Samba user. > Me too ... ;-) >
> > No, it is not possible to use another LDAP server instead of Samba 4's > > built-in LDAP implementation. At one point there was support for > > this, but as far as I understand it, it is not technically possible to > > make it work properly and the support was removed/deprecated. > This is bad. Is it really expected to migrate over all data which is > most likely present in companies current LDAP solutions to the samba > ldap? Can samba ldap fullfill all needs here (eg. rock solid life > replication and general purpose usage?). I would very much appreciate > the possibility of being able to not use the embedded ldap. This would > very much reduce the effort of moving from samba3 to 4 in existing ldap > environments. We spent considerable effort over a period of years in attempting to make this possible. It is not. Even if it was, it would not involve 'simply' reading the companies LDAP server, it would be a very intrusive change no more acceptable than using our own built-in LDAP server. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba