[Samba] LDAP Q: What for use Containers

2004-04-20 Thread Schlomo Schapiro
Hi, I am planning a Samba3+LDAP installation and was wondering about the use of putting users into different containers on the LDAP server (similar to what people do on NDS/eDirectory). Is it possible to then assign rights, options, ... to the containers and have the users inherit these

Re: [Samba] LDAP Q: What for use Containers

2004-04-20 Thread Paul Gienger
Schlomo Schapiro wrote: Hi, I am planning a Samba3+LDAP installation and was wondering about the use of putting users into different containers on the LDAP server (similar to what people do on NDS/eDirectory). Is it possible to then assign rights, options, ... to the containers and have

Re: [Samba] LDAP Q: What for use Containers

2004-04-20 Thread Schlomo Schapiro
Hi, well, on NDS and Netware you could give file system access rights to a container and then all users in that container would inherit these rights. BTW, Windows and AD also cannot do this. Basically it is a way to not use groups but assign information to objects based on their position in

Re: [Samba] LDAP Q: What for use Containers

2004-04-20 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
well, on NDS and Netware you could give file system access rights to a container and then all users in that container would inherit these rights. BTW, Windows and AD also cannot do this. This just doesn't conceptually exist in a windows domain; but you might be able to use dynamic groups

Re: [Samba] LDAP Q: What for use Containers

2004-04-20 Thread malte . mueller
Zitat von Schlomo Schapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, well, on NDS and Netware you could give file system access rights to a container and then all users in that container would inherit these rights. BTW, Windows and AD also cannot do this. My assumptions: Samba can not doe this as nss/the