Hi all, I just play around with Samba 4. At the moment, there is no official support for external LDAP (e.g. OpenLDAP). My original understanding was: We want Samba 4 "out" as fast as possible so we concentrate on "core functionality" (e.g. using internal LDAP, DNS etc.), and look at issues related to external sources later. Yesterday I found this: ---- http://us.generation-nt.com/re-samba-windows-8-pro-no-domain-logon-possible-... (20th Sep 2012) We spent considerable effort over a period of years in attempting to make this possible. It is not. Even if it was, it would not involve 'simply' reading the companies LDAP server, it would be a very intrusive change no more acceptable than using our own built-in LDAP server. Andrew Bartlett ---- I wonder whether it means: Samba will not use external LDAP at all (that would rule it out for me here) "Very intrusive changes".. to Samba or LDAP? Does anybody has insight of the "roadmap", especially about the future of external LDAP sources? I know that you can make it work, somehow, now. But if it does not have support by the Samba team it will be fiddly and fragile and you have to worry about future releases all the time. I am not really keen on that. Regards Peter