bouwexpert
March 4, 2017, 2:10pm
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NethServer Version: 7.3Module: Account Provider
dnutan
March 4, 2017, 2:23pm
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Take a look athttp://docs.nethserver.org/en/v7/accounts.html
NethServer Version: NS7
Module: account provider
If we install NS with aim to be able to create user accounts, we have to make a very basic decision what account provider to use.
In this discussion I would like to make it clear in what scenario which account provider would be the best choice.
I would like to do this so, that the outcome of this discussion will be bundled in this start topic and finally added to the wiki.
Maybe it is a good idea to first identify several scenario’s and then…
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Hi, as far as I know if Your clients are windows machines better solution will be Samba AD with an option to use it as AD domain controller. Also Samba AD gives You file access with permissions and ACL’s in opposite to Open LDAP (only Guest access as far as I know). Cheers
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EddieA
March 4, 2017, 6:41pm
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Slightly off-topic question (kinda).
Didn’t NS 6.7/8 have LDAP as it’s provider, which did support ACL’s for shared file access. What changed to remove this feature.
Cheers.
davidep
March 4, 2017, 9:47pm
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It has been debated in the past. Please have a look at
It should be possible, as we saw in ns6, but it would be complex! Samba wants its account database, because in the Microsoft world the rules are different from Unix.
We discussed this point in the past, during the Shared folder development for ns7, but I can’t find that topic now
And
I agree this may sound like a limitation, a limitation of the OpenLDAP provider we didn’t have on ns6 at the expense of a lot of code. I recall the Samba account database is another account database to keep synchronized with the Unix one (LDAP rfc2307 schema). Very complex setup.
On ns7 there’s just one account DB, being either Samba or OpenLDAP, either local or remote. This saves a lot of code and configuration efforts.
But… we can’t have Samba authentication without a Samba user database.
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Hi Guys!
Now a quite naive question, do not laugh …
I use the NS as a home server with the following options:
A) File server
B) eMail server (Sogo with CalDAV and CardDav)
C) virtual web server
D) VPN
E) nextcloud
As a client are used tablet with Android, Smartphone, Netbook and Linux computer.
I use no Windows computer, what makes more sense then:
Samba Active Directory or OpenLDAP
What would be the advantages / disadvantages for me?
I would be grateful for simple understandable mea…