samba - May 2010 - FreeIPA + samba 4, any news?

Hi people,

I'm trying to move from windows PDC to samba, and I'm waiting a bit
until samba 4 gets a little more mature. What I also want to use is FreeIPA as I
need an LDAP+Kerberos environment not only for samba but also for the rest of
the services.
Here is where I quite don't know really what is in samba's developers
mind, so I don't know if I can use samba's ldap for multipurpose or need
to build an ldap for the other services and then get samba to use it.
Any one to spread some light on this?
Regards,

Hi,

I'm not a developer but am using S4 as PDC for our Windows domain.
Samba's LDAP+Kerberos also serve a number of Solaris and Linux machines
with users, automount maps and all the things I needed so far.
As expected (and the main reason to use S4) all clients use the same
user credentials. So far I've seen no real problems. Ok there were a few
smaller issues initially, but thanks to the Samba team those were
resolved pretty fast. So I'm a happy user now.
Of course as this is still work in progress, so your mileage may vary.

 Bernd

On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 11:06 -0700, Juan Pablo Lorier
wrote:
> Hi people,
> 
> I'm trying to move from windows PDC to samba, and I'm waiting a bit
> until samba 4 gets a little more mature. What I also want to use is
> FreeIPA as I need an LDAP+Kerberos environment not only for samba but
> also for the rest of the services.
> Here is where I quite don't know really what is in samba's
developers
> mind, so I don't know if I can use samba's ldap for multipurpose or
> need to build an ldap for the other services and then get samba to use
> it.
If the other services you want to use will talk to an AD-like schema,
there is no reason why you can't use Samba4 for that. 
> Any one to spread some light on this?
> Regards,
For information on FreeIPA, you are best to ask them.  I continue to
work with them to ensure that Fedora DS/'389' can work as a Samba4
backend, but beyond that I don't know their status (and it's not very
clear on their wiki).

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Cisco Inc.

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