Re: [Samba] Re: samba w/ ldap - groups scalability and performance

2004-09-22 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I have a suggestion. I think you can partition off the groups by putting them in sub OU's of your groups OU. Yes, and you could partition those OUs across servers. Alternatively you could use some Balanceing Domain Controllers with disconnected authentication. This entails setting up

[Samba] Re: samba w/ ldap - groups scalability and performance

2004-09-22 Thread Igor Belyi
Igor Belyi wrote: Marlys Nelson wrote: The PDC appears to request ALL groups from LDAP, using the search (objectclass=sambaGroupMapping). In our case, this is nearly 14,000 entries and it can take almost 10 minutes to retrieve those from LDAP when there are hundreds trying at once. Indexing

[Samba] Re: samba w/ ldap - groups scalability and performance

2004-09-21 Thread Jim C.
I have a suggestion. I think you can partition off the groups by putting them in sub OU's of your groups OU. Alternatively you could use some Balanceing Domain Controllers with disconnected authentication. This entails setting up Balanceing Domain Controllers, each with a local LDAP slave

[Samba] Re: samba w/ ldap - groups scalability and performance

2004-09-20 Thread Igor Belyi
Marlys Nelson wrote: The PDC appears to request ALL groups from LDAP, using the search (objectclass=sambaGroupMapping). In our case, this is nearly 14,000 entries and it can take almost 10 minutes to retrieve those from LDAP when there are hundreds trying at once. Indexing doesn't help in