On 25/07/13 17:59, dahopk...@comcast.net wrote:
1) will the unixHomedirectory be honored? 2) will I be able to easily add users so that the unix settings will be properly configured? I currently use the IDEALX smbldap tools. Being able to script account creation is very important to me .. adding 200+ user accounts manually each year is not very appealing. ;)
It is scriptable, though to be honest a powershell script from Windows probably works better at this point in time.
3) Will the scripting tools be able to automatically assign a unique uid for each unix account. Current approach uses NextFreeUnixID but this does not exist in the Samba4 database (the ldap entry is shown below )
Nope. Either maintain the accounts somewhere else where you can do that and have a script that then creates and disables accounts as needed in AD, or have your script look for the highest UID and increment from that.
I have read through the recent thread on winbind and honestly I am not sure that I want to pursue either winbind or sssd if it is possible to use nss_pam_ldap which seems closest to the current approach.
Assuming these are Linux workstations, then sssd is the way to go for the future. If you are running a samba 3.x member file server then I personally would use winbind. I have not looked at Samba4 yet (campus agreements in higher education where I work make real Microsoft AD controllers very very cheap that why would you do it), but there are reports of issues with winbind on samba4 file servers. Then again I would be hesitant in putting a Samba 4 file server into production. You gain little over a Samba 3.6.x server.
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