samba - Nov 2015 - Using samba-python to query AD? Status of API?

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Rowland Penny
<rowlandpenny241155 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah, you want to search AD with python, as in 'ldbsearch -H
> /usr/local/samba/private/sam.ldb' (this will dump the AD database)
> You will find lots of 'examples' in the python 'samba'
directory that an
> install of a samba DC creates, these are used by samba-tool, well actually,
> they are samba-tool :-)
No, I don't want to dump the LDB, I want to query an actual Windows DC
(same as 'net ads search' command).
> Also have a look here:
> https://www.samba.org/~jelmer/samba4-python/moduleIndex.html
That module listing is not very helpful in itself, but I'll take a
look at the samba test examples to try to get a feel for it.

-aps

On 05/11/15 14:59, pisymbol . wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Rowland Penny
> <rowlandpenny241155 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ah, you want to search AD with python, as in 'ldbsearch -H
>> /usr/local/samba/private/sam.ldb' (this will dump the AD database)
>> You will find lots of 'examples' in the python 'samba'
directory that an
>> install of a samba DC creates, these are used by samba-tool, well
actually,
>> they are samba-tool :-)
> No, I don't want to dump the LDB, I want to query an actual Windows DC
> (same as 'net ads search' command).
That was just an example, but why are you asking on a Samba mailing list 
for information on howto query a windows DC??

You can use ldbsearch or ldapsearch for this, or use windows tools from 
a windows machine.

Rowland
>
>> Also have a look here:
>> https://www.samba.org/~jelmer/samba4-python/moduleIndex.html
> That module listing is not very helpful in itself, but I'll take a
> look at the samba test examples to try to get a feel for it.
>
> -aps

"samba-tool ldapcmp ..." uses ldap:// to compare, or at least it can
use
ldap://. As it is samba-tool command, it is a Python script. Perhaps you'll
find what you want in that...

2015-11-05 15:59 GMT+01:00 pisymbol . <pisymbol at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Rowland Penny
> <rowlandpenny241155 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ah, you want to search AD with python, as in 'ldbsearch -H
> > /usr/local/samba/private/sam.ldb' (this will dump the AD database)
> > You will find lots of 'examples' in the python 'samba'
directory that an
> > install of a samba DC creates, these are used by samba-tool, well
> actually,
> > they are samba-tool :-)
>
> No, I don't want to dump the LDB, I want to query an actual Windows DC
> (same as 'net ads search' command).
>
> > Also have a look here:
> > https://www.samba.org/~jelmer/samba4-python/moduleIndex.html
>
> That module listing is not very helpful in itself, but I'll take a
> look at the samba test examples to try to get a feel for it.
>
> -aps
>
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On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Rowland Penny
<rowlandpenny241155 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/11/15 14:59, pisymbol . wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Rowland Penny
>> <rowlandpenny241155 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Ah, you want to search AD with python, as in 'ldbsearch -H
>>> /usr/local/samba/private/sam.ldb' (this will dump the AD
database)
>>> You will find lots of 'examples' in the python
'samba' directory that an
>>> install of a samba DC creates, these are used by samba-tool, well
>>> actually,
>>> they are samba-tool :-)
>>
>> No, I don't want to dump the LDB, I want to query an actual Windows
DC
>> (same as 'net ads search' command).
>
> That was just an example, but why are you asking on a Samba mailing list
for
> information on howto query a windows DC??
>
> You can use ldbsearch or ldapsearch for this, or use windows tools from a
> windows machine.
Yes, I understand all that. But the 'net ads search' wrapper is a lot
nicer than the openldap clients.

But perhaps you're right, maybe OpenLDAP is indeed what I really want
and are a bit misguided by leveraging 'net ads search' stuff out of
the samba tools so heavily.

-aps