On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 10:29, Yura Pismerov wrote:
Caleb O'Connell wrote:
is it possible and how difficult is it, to use LDAP for all the user
accounts and groups and password management? would this be something you
would want to do? or is it better to stick with samba's initila way of
dealing with users?
It depends. It definitely makes sense if you already have LDAP setup
and/or if you are looking for centralized account management (same
username/password for Windows, Unix, Mail, etc.). Also it is feasible to
do if you are going to set up Samba BDC.
Please keep in mind that Samba exercise LDAP directory pretty hard.
Also think about
having redundant setup - multiple LDAP replicas with a load balancer
(hardware or software).
Samba 3.0 just got a lot better in that regard, but yes, we do hit LDAP
pretty hard.
(We now cache connections, avoid unnecessary writes and don't go
Get_Pwnam() on each returned entry).
Andrew Bartlett
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