Hastings, Curt
2001-Jan-10 15:14 UTC
Is this the current status of LDAP support for Samba?
Hello Samba Gurus, I have been doing some research regarding Samba and LDAP. Our company wants to investigate alternatives to win2000 Server and obviously Samba is an option. However, we also want to centrally administrate user accounts which implies LDAP. In my investigation I have understood the following to be the current state of Samba/LDAP integration: 1. Samba 2.0.7 does not support LDAP. Although you can compile Samba --with-ldap the code is broken and does not work. 2. Samba 2.2.0 will support LDAP but is not out yet. 3. Some folks have gotten Samba pre2.1 (10-15-99) to work with LDAP but that is alpha code and although LDAP may work other things probably don't. Are my understandings correct? If so when is 2.2.0 supposed to be released? If I am incorrect please let me know. Thanks for any help. Curt Hastings Ball Corporation chastings@ball.com
"Hastings, Curt" wrote:> > 1. Samba 2.0.7 does not support LDAP. Although > you can compile Samba --with-ldap the code is broken > and does not work.Correct.> 2. Samba 2.2.0 will support LDAP but is not out yet.That was the plans. Definitely not in the 2.2.0 release though.> 3. Some folks have gotten Samba pre2.1 (10-15-99) to > work with LDAP but that is alpha code and although > LDAP may work other things probably don't.Yup.> Are my understandings correct? If so when is 2.2.0 > supposed to be released? If I am incorrect please let > me know.The ACL support is the last feature and Jeremy is working hard on that now. After that is done, it is in a feature freeze. beta testing, bug fixing, and then release. Cheers, jerry ---------------------------------------------------------------------- /\ Gerald (Jerry) Carter Professional Services \/ http://www.valinux.com/ VA Linux Systems gcarter@valinux.com http://www.samba.org/ SAMBA Team jerry@samba.org http://www.plainjoe.org/ jerry@plainjoe.org "...a hundred billion castaways looking for a home." - Sting "Message in a Bottle" ( 1979 )