Jim, Perhaps you should forward your concerns to the OpenLDAP developers list and hopefully they can work out something to streamline the process. Perhaps they are already working on streamlining the system and require some help in tightening up some of their ideas.
I am sure that they would welcome any suggestions that you may have. Of course, some of the issues that you have experienced also appear to have come from Samba's implementation of chatting with LDAP. Perhaps there are some things you could forward to the Samba developers that could also make for a much easier to operate Samba/(Open)LDAP experience. Regards, Robert Adkins II IT Manager/Buyer Impel Industries, Inc. Ph. 586-254-5800 Fx. 586-254-5804 -----Original Message----- From: Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 8:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Robert Adkins Subject: [Samba] Re: frustration samba and LDAP > So far, it has been my experience that learning (Open)LDAP is really no > more difficult then learning Microsoft's Active Directory system. The > only major difference that I see is that (Open)LDAP appears to be easier > to recover, if there happens to be corruptions and such. Actually, I'm going to side with him. Figureing out the setup has taken me just under 6 months which is way too long. IMHO, the problem isn't that the system is complex, exactly. Rather that it can seem so complex that one constantly winds up second guessing. It has too many components to keep track of and integrate (ACL's, smb.conf slapd.conf ldap.conf ldap.secret, search syntax etc. etc..). Despite thier individual complexity I've felt that they are collectively complex. If one isn't good at decomposeing problems into smaller domains, then one might be in trouble. Also there is the problem of thinking in an extra dimension for an object orientated database system when most of us are trained to think in relational terms. Couple this with the lack of an easy to use and understand query language/syntax (i.e. that we are spoiled by SQL)... -- 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