samba - Apr 2004 - LDAP Q: What for use Containers

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 rights ?

I observed that e.g. SuSE Enterprise server and other SuSE products put 
all users in the same context, thereby using the LDAP only as a better 
flat-file storage.

Having worked a lot in a Novell environment I of course got used to the 
convenience of assigning rights to containers.

Is there currently any support for this in Samba ?

Is there something planned to facilitate this feature ? I guess it will 
also have to go with the host file system ...

Any input appreciated,

Schlomo

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Regards,
Schlomo

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 the users inherit these rights ?
>  
>
What type of 'rights, options,...' are you looking for here?  Perhaps 
you are looking for a feature that could be given via groups, but more 
specifics are necessary.
>Having worked a lot in a Novell environment I of course got used to the 
>convenience of assigning rights to containers.
>
>Is there currently any support for this in Samba ?
>
>Is there something planned to facilitate this feature ? I guess it will 
>also have to go with the host file system ...
>
>Any input appreciated,
>
>Schlomo
>
>  
>
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