samba - Nov 2020 - samba's ldap

Since samba doesn't use openldap for AD DC mode, is it possible to directly
read from/write to samba's LDAP from 3rd party programs? I want to ensure
that I can keep user information consistent across multiple databases.

-- 
Dan Egli
>From my Test server

On Sun, 2020-11-08 at 06:45 +0000, Dan Egli via samba
wrote:
> Since samba doesn't use openldap for AD DC mode, is it possible to
directly read from/write to samba's LDAP from 3rd party programs? I want to
ensure that I can keep user information consistent across multiple databases.
Yes, just like an OpenLDAP server, you can access our LDAP server.  The
big differences are:
- the AD schema and layout
- authentication is required for all operations.

Andrew Bartlett
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Andrew Bartlett                       http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team  http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Catalyst IT         
http://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba

On Sunday, November 08, 2020 12:00 AM MST, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at
samba.org> wrote:
 
> On Sun, 2020-11-08 at 06:45 +0000, Dan Egli via samba wrote:
> > Since samba doesn't use openldap for AD DC mode, is it possible to
directly read from/write to samba's LDAP from 3rd party programs? I want to
ensure that I can keep user information consistent across multiple databases.
> 
> Yes, just like an OpenLDAP server, you can access our LDAP server.  The
> big differences are:
> - the AD schema and layout
> - authentication is required for all operations.
> 
Since I've never used LDAP before, can you point me to a good source for the
schema and how to access data within it?  I understand things like MySQL easy
enough. But since I need to reconcile data between MySQL and Samba's LDAP, I
need to be sure I understand how Samba's LDAP is laid out and how you'd
access it externally.

Thanks!
-- 
Dan Egli
>From my Test server