[Kolab-devel] why not ship Kolab with Samba by default?

[Martin Konold]

On Sunday 31 May 2009 17:02:05 Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:

Hi Tomasz,

Firstly you must decide what kind of Samba do you mean.
PDC, BDC, Fileserver, Printserver, Member of an existing AD Domain....

> Martin Konold wrote:
> > On Sunday 31 May 2009 12:21:22 Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >  > * Kolab's web interface is not compatible with Samba (i.e. it doesn't
> >  >
> >  > add some required LDAP attributes for Samba) - so you have to use a
> >  >
> >  > different webgui for adding users: LAM (LDAP Account Manager)
> >
> > Is it incompatible or simple lacking to expose some attributes?
> >
> > If it is the later we may consider to makeing them optionally available
> > via the Kolab webadmin tool.
>
> Isn't it the same? ;)

No. Incompatibility means that there is a conflict. E.g. either semantics or 
syntax dissallows simply extending on product in order to support the other.

> It would have to add some samba attributes (passwords)

Extra password attributes sound wrong and scary.

Please exlicitly list them somewhere so that I can have look and decide if 
they could be supported out of the box.

> and keep track of
> user IDs (so that they are not duplicated).

Yours,
-- martin

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