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Interview: Taking Samba beyond POSIX (IBM developerWorks)
IBM developerWorks interviews
Andrew Tridgell on his latest Samba rewrite. "And what exactly does
Tridge have to say about exotic filesystem backends? It turns out that
since being hired by IBM's Almaden Research Center in January of this year,
the Australian hacker has been working on pushing Samba beyond the POSIX
world and figuring out what work needs to be done to get Samba to support
new filesystems such as XFS, ext3, and Storage Tank. The answer is nothing
less than a complete rewrite of Samba's smbd code, which has become his
latest pet project."
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Wishing for the Holy Grail of the One Password for All Posted Apr 18, 2003 1:53 UTC (Fri) by nicku (subscriber, #777) [Link] I wish Robert McMillan had asked Andrew about using Samba as an AD PDC using something like OpenLDAP. When will that happen? So far it seems Samba is only aiming at being an AD member, not an AD PDC. We want to use OpenLDAP for all our directory infrastructure, including supporting Linux and Windows clients. Currently, with Samba, it's all a bit clunky; for example, we still need to support two (actually, three) passwords to support binds and Samba authentication. The clunkiness is in synchronising these passwords. I'd love for those clunks to be resolved, perhaps by using Kerberos to hold all passwords.I know that you can use smb authentication on Linux, but we still need the userPassword attribute to authenticate web applications, for instance.
Interview: Taking Samba beyond POSIX (IBM developerWorks) Posted Apr 18, 2003 7:47 UTC (Fri) by noel (subscriber, #7068) [Link] Hello,this question is asked very often and at the end of sambaXP (www.sambaxp.org a great event!) the whole team where available for questions. You can get audio here:
Hope this helps. Noèl
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