samba - Jun 2004 - Samba3-LDAP PDC and SUSE OpenExchange

Hi all,
I have setup a Samba3 PDC and BDC with an LDAP backend to replace my current
NT 4.0 infrastructure. This configuration is working fine. I also am testing
integration of SuSE OpenExchange and would like to have it authenticate
logons via the domain LDAP database.
>From my preliminary testing i have found that OpenExchange attempts an LDAP
search for some information regarding the cyrus user (PreferredLanguage to
be exact) during loading of the login page via the webmail interface. I do
see the search request hit the PDC LDAP server, but because of the directory
structure differences that OpenExchange is looking for, this obviously
fails.

Has anyone taken this on or have some input?

I know this is probably more an OpenExchange question but i wanted to see if
the Samba community has spent any time on this. I am assuming at this point
it will take source modifications of the OpenExchange code but i am not
sure.
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Board, Clint schrieb:
> Hi all,
> I have setup a Samba3 PDC and BDC with an LDAP backend to replace my
current
> NT 4.0 infrastructure. This configuration is working fine. I also am
testing
> integration of SuSE OpenExchange and would like to have it authenticate
> logons via the domain LDAP database.
> 
> 
>>>From my preliminary testing i have found that OpenExchange attempts
an LDAP
> 
> search for some information regarding the cyrus user (PreferredLanguage to
> be exact) during loading of the login page via the webmail interface. I do
> see the search request hit the PDC LDAP server, but because of the
directory
> structure differences that OpenExchange is looking for, this obviously
> fails.
> 
> Has anyone taken this on or have some input?
> 
> I know this is probably more an OpenExchange question but i wanted to see
if
> the Samba community has spent any time on this. I am assuming at this point
> it will take source modifications of the OpenExchange code but i am not
> sure.
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Hi, slox is acting as ldap smb pdc via samba old version,
it should be possible to configure you smb pdc to use
the slox ldap directory, maybe you will run in schema
problems, as slox is an enterprise product you should wait, if possible,
for an upgrade to slox by suse in which samba version 3 is included
Regards

I am already using a script as a mediary to my smbldap scripts on the PDC. I
can simply add in to replicate changes to the second LDAP database on the
SLOX server. I don't really want to use my SLOX server as my PDC so...

The schemas are different enough that integrating both of them would be a
big job.

Just an FYI but i have Samba3.0.2 up and running on my SLOX server without
any issues :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Hobson [mailto:shobson-lists@colony.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 6:21 AM
To: samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba3-LDAP PDC and SUSE OpenExchange


Board, Clint wrote:
>I have setup a Samba3 PDC and BDC with an LDAP backend to replace my
current
>NT 4.0 infrastructure. This configuration is working fine. I also am
testing
>integration of SuSE OpenExchange and would like to have it authenticate
>logons via the domain LDAP database.
>
>
>From my preliminary testing i have found that OpenExchange attempts 
>an LDAP search for some information regarding the cyrus user 
>(PreferredLanguage to
>be exact) during loading of the login page via the webmail interface. I do
>see the search request hit the PDC LDAP server, but because of the
directory
>structure differences that OpenExchange is looking for, this obviously
>fails.
>
>Has anyone taken this on or have some input?
>
>I know this is probably more an OpenExchange question but i wanted to see
if
>the Samba community has spent any time on this. I am assuming at this point
>it will take source modifications of the OpenExchange code but i am not
>sure.
We have SLOX as my PDC and fileserver.

The LDAP schema is fairly easy to see, so I guess the first step 
would be to compare the schemas and see what is missing/different. If 
you can't reconcile the schema differences, would it be practical to 
configure replications to transfer key elements (such as password) 
between the two LDAP servers ? OK, not ideal, and you would still 
need to add users in two places, but it would allow you to have a 
single password for each user. It should be possible to write a 
script that would take any new users from one database and add them 
to the other, adding any extra fields with default values.

* We are using it with XP, at first we had loads and loads of 
problems, but our vendor upgraded Samba to 2.2.8a, so now we only 
have loads of problems :-(

Simon

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