--On September 28, 2007 10:42:22 AM -0700 Howard Chu <hyc(a)symas.com&gt; wrote: > Yesterday afternoon at the CIFS Workshop we had a meeting to discuss > Samba 4's use of LDAP going forward, and what obstacles remained. Among > the attendees that I can remember were Andrew Bartlett, Andrew Tridgell, > Simo Sorce, Stefan Metzmacher, and (one more, I've forgotten the name) > from the Samba team. Nicole Jacque and another (sorry, don't remember the > name) from Apple/OpenDirectory, Pete Rowley from FedoraDS, and myself and > Marty Heyman for OpenLDAP and Symas. > > The upshot is that both the Samba and the LDAP sides have work to do, but > there are no major roadblocks. LDAP will be Samba 4's default/recommended > data store. As for OpenLDAP, most of what Samba 4 needs is either already > implemented, or in progress. > > Schema design tends to still be a stumbling block; in a separate > conversation we discussed some design issues in MIT's new Kerberos schema > as well as missing features in Heimdal's existing Kerberos schema. That's > a bit outside this openldap-devel scope but I've committed to working > with the Samba and Kerberos communities to draft some changes to unify > these two Kerberos schemas. Does that mean you are joining the IETF Kerberos WG, which currently has creating a Kerberos Schema for LDAP as one of its agenda items? I forget who volunteered to write it, but I can go and look it up if you can't find it in the archives.