We're in the midst of setting up a Samba 3 system as our PDC. I come from a Samba 2 world, where the passdb backend was smbpasswd. What's the ... er, 'best' passdb backend at this point? To qualify best, there's no limitations on the type of storage used (LDAP, MySQL, XML, etc). I'm just looking for something that's going to make integration with a 2000/XP domain easier, and is going to be well supported into the future. TIA.
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 05:21:51PM -0400, Damian Gerow wrote about '[Samba] Recommended passdb backend':> We're in the midst of setting up a Samba 3 system as our PDC. I come from a > Samba 2 world, where the passdb backend was smbpasswd. What's the ... er, > 'best' passdb backend at this point?> To qualify best, there's no limitations on the type of storage used (LDAP, > MySQL, XML, etc). I'm just looking for something that's going to make > integration with a 2000/XP domain easier, and is going to be well supported > into the future.Here's a rough list of what backend to use when: tdb - Small (fresh) installation, only one DC ldap - Larger (fresh) installation smbpasswd - for backwards compatibility only mysql - for those who have a current system with MySQL and want to integrate that xml - for backup purposes Jelmer -- Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@nl.linux.org> - http://jelmer.vernstok.nl/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20030808/b4d2f08a/attachment.bin
If you have less than 50 users then tdbsam is perfect. When I broke 50 users I noticed a lag in logoon time. Using LDAP has greatly helped. Not only that, but now we have the option of having a samba-BDC. Jim -----Original Message----- From: samba-bounces+creole3=bellsouth.net@lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-bounces+creole3=bellsouth.net@lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of Damian Gerow Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 5:22 PM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] Recommended passdb backend We're in the midst of setting up a Samba 3 system as our PDC. I come from a Samba 2 world, where the passdb backend was smbpasswd. What's the ... er, 'best' passdb backend at this point? To qualify best, there's no limitations on the type of storage used (LDAP, MySQL, XML, etc). I'm just looking for something that's going to make integration with a 2000/XP domain easier, and is going to be well supported into the future. TIA. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Jim Wharton wrote:> If you have less than 50 users then tdbsam is perfect. When I broke 50 > users I noticed a lag in logoon time. Using LDAP has greatly helped. Not > only that, but now we have the option of having a samba-BDC.Mind filing a bug report that effect in bugzilla.samba.org? Thanks. cheers, jerry