[plug] Samba group awarness

[Adam Ashley]

mostly single sign-on has been the biggest thing for us. all the windows
servers authenticate against the samba server which goes against the
ldap. The samba server also shares out home dirs and the main shared
data dir. All the linux servers are setup to use LDAP for authentication
and automount configuration, so again you get your home dir and access
to the main shared data dir. Combine this with mod_auth_ldap in apache2
and we get the single login extended to the web based network management
software, the subversion server, stuff like that.

Also if your using samba 3 dont use the smbpasswd file, switch to the
trivialdb password backend. It can handle all the extra stuff that
smbpasswd cant and ldap can without any hassle.

Adam

On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 22:53 +0800, Ryan wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 22:45, Ryan wrote:
> 
> > Are you able to briefly enlighten those of us who are grossly
> > under-informed in the ways of LDAP as to how it may benefit such a Samba
> > installation?
> 
> I found a few items in the 'Introduction' of this page:
> 
> http://us4.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/htmldocs/Samba-LDAP-HOWTO.html
> 
> Performance bottlenecks for large sites, extra account options that
> smbpasswd can't handle and the obvious multi-server password sync.
> 
> Any others?
> 
> Ryan
> 
> 
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