I'm not AD expert, but the department requesting this service wants to ease the management of their windows environments. We currently use LDAP server from Oracle to managed our applications data. One of those applications is where all identity data is created. So it would be nice to just make AD use that active directory server and keep AD out of the mix. Instead of switching all applications to store data in the AD server. I didn't think Samba covered all AD functions. I might be wrong, I've only ever used Samba for print and file sharing. I'm open to ideas, but I'm not a big MS fan, and primary develop, not manage workstations. Thanks.
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Dan White dwhite@olp.net wrote:
On 06/06/14 14:54 -0400, Justin Stanczak wrote:
Is there a method of connecting Active Directory to use OpenLDAP as the authentication source. So pass through to OpenLDAP. Making OpenLDAP the primary system with all the passwords and usernames. I realize this might be more of a AD question, but the places I've looked seem to always make AD the primary. Then everyone else must proxy to AD. Thanks.
What is your usage scenario? Are you supporting user logins to Windows systems? If so, see Samba.
-- Dan White