The Suretec Blog - Samba

GNU/Linux and Microsoft Active Directory

nospam@example.com (Gavin Henry) — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:44:40 +0100

There's an interesting interview video with Gerald Carter of Samba and Likewise Software talking about Likewise Open:

Likewise Open is an open source, community project sponsored by Likewise Software to integrate Linux, Unix, and Mac in Microsoft Active Directory and authenticate users with their domain credentials. Likewise Open is licensed under the open source licensing so you can download it for free. Or, if you would like to become involved with the project, join one of the community mailing lists and discuss Likewise Open with other users and developers.

Suretec use Likewise Open for some of its cusomters and it's very good if you need to go down that route....

Solutions for creating a Samba4 OpenLDAP backend

nospam@example.com (Gavin Henry) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:16:43 +0100

Things are looking better for the future of Samba and OpenLDAP working together:

If we get this much done, then I think Samba4 and OpenLDAP can continue
the forward march. I look forward to having Samba4 'powered by
OpenLDAP', because without it (or a Fedora DS backend, with whom I'm
having a similar discussion) Samba4 does not have a replicated
deployment modal.

Article Ideas

nospam@example.com (Gavin Henry) — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:03:39 +0100

I'm thinking of getting more articles out there. Either on the Suretec site, or a community site like Symas did with their OpenLDAP article. Ideas include:

Asterisk Realtime with OpenLDAP

Configure OpenLDAP over LDAP^[?]

Working with Firewalls and OpenLDAP Replication

OpenLDAP 2.4 - Best of breed LDAP

Browsing your OpenLDAP directory with Catalyst and Dojo

The real power of OpenLDAP: Overlays and Backends

One Place to Rule them All: OpenLDAP with Jabber, VoIP, SCM, Samba.....

Securing OpenLDAP

Enterprise OpenLDAP Deployments

OpenLDAP with a PostgreSQL Backend

How big can your Directory get?

Program your OpenLDAP Directory with Perl

LDAP Schema Design

OpenLDAP Fundamentals

OpenLDAP ACLs

I can think of many more, but I have the normal project docs to finish

Gavin.