/* Mea culpa, catching up on almost 1,000 unread emails on luv-main */ On Fri, 5 Apr 2013 09:16:23 AM Brian May wrote:
Also note that if you can upgrade to Samba 4 without enabling AD, and everything will continue to work as is. I assume this means it will continue to work with your existing LDAP servers until you enable AD support.
Here are Andrew Bartlett's own words on this in a response to a query on LWN after Samba 4's release: https://lwn.net/Articles/529321/ # The there are three ways out of this difficult situation # - continue to use Samba as a 'classic' domain controller as-is using # smbd/nmbd (this code remains and remains supported). # - Add schema extensions to our LDAP server (disabled by default, but # supported), and cope with the AD-specified layout restrictions. # - Somehow sync Samba with an existing LDAP server. it's worth reading the full comment for more on the background. All the best, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP