samba - Dec 2004 - LDAP and Samba -- a basic question

I've gathered that there's a close connection between Samba and LDAP,
but the
Samba documentation I've looked at, mainly in the SWAT help and man page, 
doesn't discuss LDAP.   Just what is the nature of the connection?

If it's relevant, I'm running SuSE 9.1 Linux.

Paul Abrahams

On Thursday 30 December 2004 10:57, Paul W. Abrahams
wrote:
> I've gathered that there's a close connection between Samba and
LDAP, but
> the Samba documentation I've looked at, mainly in the SWAT help and man
> page, doesn't discuss LDAP.   Just what is the nature of the
connection?
Paul,

I wrote the "Samba-3 by Example" book using SuSE Linux 9.x and Red Hat
9 and
Fedora Core 1. You can purchase this book from Amazon.Com or download the PDF 
from:

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-Guide.pdf

Suggest you work through chapter 6 to see the connections. If you get lost get 
me a shout.

Cheers,
John T.
>
> If it's relevant, I'm running SuSE 9.1 Linux.
>
> Paul Abrahams
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On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 12:57 -0500, Paul W. Abrahams
wrote:
> I've gathered that there's a close connection between Samba and
LDAP, but the
> Samba documentation I've looked at, mainly in the SWAT help and man
page,
> doesn't discuss LDAP.   Just what is the nature of the connection?
Your question is kind of vague.

You can use LDAP as your security backend (SAM) via ldapsam.