Should I use LDAP or Samba Active Directory?

[davidep (Davide Principi)]

It has been debated in the past. Please have a look at

No ACL in shared folder GUI with OpenLDAP

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

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Try out Nethserver 7 beta1

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. …

Samba Active Directory or OpenLDAP

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…