[Fedora-directory-devel] Samba4 onto Fedora DS

[Howard Chu]

> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:11:17 +1000
> From: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
>   
> Yeah, at the moment I'm looking at DS as a replicating (transactional?)
> LDAP-speaking backend, which clients will never talk to.  All clients
> will use the Samba lens (as you so very well put it).  
>
> Currently, the lens (written for OpenLDAP) maps entryUUID <->
> objectClass, canoncalises objectSid and objectCategory and maps some
> timestamps.
>   

I think you meant entryUUID <-> objectGUID. We've done some mapping to 
allow OpenLDAP to replicate to AD; it's quite convoluted. There are a 
variety of attributes that AD doesn't allow us to write (like 
objectGUID) so we retrieve them instead, and stuff them into the 
OpenLDAP side.

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