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Hi Folks, A couple of questions about making SMB (3 or 4) authenticate to an external (anonymous) LDAP server: 1) A typical LDAP user record is below. Is there anything lacking in this record that would prevent Samba from authenticating against our LDAP server? Note the sambaSID is as is, gobblygook info: dsAttrTypeNative:eduPersonAffiliation: Employee Member dsAttrTypeNative:givenName: David dsAttrTypeNative:homeDirectory: /afs/cats.csux.edu/users/t/dsixpack dsAttrTypeNative:mail: dsixpack at csux.edu dsAttrTypeNative:objectClass: posixAccount organizationalPerson csuxPerson top sambaSamAcc...

...eat things happen: --There''s great congruence between what the transmission (HTTP), what the web app does (crud), and what the database does (insert/read/ update/delete), which streamlines the application. --Resource addresses (URLs) are always resource addresses and not mucked up by gobblygook or addresses that have verbs mixed in (http:// mywebapp.mydomain.com/myProtocolisPerl?myVerbIsDelete?MyUserIs?Bob). Mapping the web is now much easier. --The application will get a lot more use because everyone counts on a simple, consistent interaction based on the formula of a simple verb...