Integration of Kolab 3 with Samba4 LDAP

[Paul Klos]

Hi Borut,

Borut Pinter schreef op 2013-05-21 12:29:
> Mat,
> 
> I thank you for your reply. However I'm not sure this will work as
> both of these (samba4 and Kolab) use LDAP for user database.
> 
> I'm not sure how to run two LDAP servers on the same machine and I
> didn't find anywhere how I can setup kolab with different LDAP server
> or other kind of user database the it's 386 Directory Server for now.
> 
> If there is a way I can run 2 LDAP servers (one form samba4 and the
> other from Kolab) I could do as you suggested but I'm not really sure.
> 
> 
> Perfect soulution for me would be that both (Kolab and Samba) would
> use just one common LDAP server.
> 
> Is this possible?
> 
I had this running on a Kolab 3 test server, although I'm not currently 
doing this in my live server. I followed one of the many Samba/LDAP 
tutorials out there, and managed to integrate the user management for 
both in my Kolab LDAP server.

However, there were a few issues, mainly that the kolab-webadmin not 
only does not offer support for this, but actually stopped working after 
I added the required Samba object classes to my uses. I got a 500 
internal server error with every attempt to update a users in Kolab 
webadmin. This is also the reason I'm not actually running this in a 
live situation (yet), although it's on my list of stuff to look into.

I reckon you can get it to work with alternative LDAP management 
software (I used PHPLDAPAdmin) as long as you accept that kolab-webadmin 
won't work anymore (or if you fix that :-D).

Let us know how you get on.

Cheers,

Paul