samba - Nov 2011 - samba4 & ldap?

I am confused... Using an ldap server as a backend for samba4 is not 
recommended? We are primarily a linux shop. We have an ldap database we use 
for authentication. I can't use that anymore if I switch to samba4?

On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 12:34 -0600, John Heim wrote:
> I am confused... Using an ldap server as a backend for samba4 is not 
> recommended? 
Not only not recommended, it will not work and is not supported.
> We are primarily a linux shop. We have an ldap database we use 
> for authentication. I can't use that anymore if I switch to samba4?
Nope.

Active Directory provides an LDAP service (DSA) but Active Directory is
not LDAP.  It has very specific provisioning, security, and schema
rules.

On Thu, November 17, 2011 13:34, John Heim wrote:
> I am confused... Using an ldap server as a backend for samba4 is not
> recommended? We are primarily a linux shop. We have an ldap database we
> use for authentication. I can't use that anymore if I switch to samba4?
If you don't need to emulate Active Directory, then you should probably
just stick with the Samba 3.x series. Samba 3 emulates NT-style domain
membership and for simply single-password/login infrastructure it should
be sufficient.

Samba 4 is a bit more ambition that that.

Hopefully/Perhaps one day it will support LDAP back-ends more readily, but
considering it's still in beta (alpha?), I'd guess such functionality is
barely on the TODO list (assuming it's even technically possible).