Integration of Kolab 3 with Samba4 LDAP

[Christian Tardif]

Hi,

I have an environment where I run two LDAP servers (samba4+ 389) in the 
same machine. To achieve this, I just added a second interface on my 
server, and made sure to attach every ldap server to only one interface. 
Easy to do on the samba side (in smb.conf, use "interfaces" and "bind 
interfaces only" to attach samba to a particular interface). On the 389, 
you need to modify /etc/dirsrv/<directory instance>/dse.ldif (while the 
directory server is down). Just add
     nssldap-listenhost: <desired ip>
just below nssldap-port and restart the 389 directory server to have it 
hooked to the other network interface. You now have two ldap servers 
running on the same machine.

But that does help much into integrating Samba4 to Kolab.

I did that in the past (when things were much simpler) to integrate 
samba 3 to kolab 2. That was working, but samba 3 was not so hungry 
about ldap requirements. Now, if you want to seemlessly intergrate 
Samba4 into a windows environment (and be able to use Windows tools to 
deal with the samba domain), you'll find it difficult to integrate with 
Kolab 3, and probably break numerous things.  That's my two cents on the 
subject.

Christian...

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On 21/05/2013 06:29, Borut Pinter wrote:
>
> 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?
>
> best regards,
>
> Borut.
>
> 21.05.2013 12:00, je kolab-users-request at kolab.org napisal
>
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>> From: Mat Cantin <mat at cantinbrothers.ca  <mailto:mat at cantinbrothers.ca>>
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>> I recommend looking at the LSC Project to sync the two user databases
>> up.
>>
>> http://lsc-project.org/wiki/The LSC mailing list is pretty good if you need help setting it up.
>>
>> --
>> Mat
>>
>>
>> On 2013-05-20 7:59, Borut Pinter wrote:
>>> Hello, I have just deployed a new samba4 server as DC for windows 
>>> network. I would like to add Kolab 3 as groupware to the same user 
>>> base and I was wondering if I can use samba4 AD or LDAP also for 
>>> Kolab 3? All the instructions I have found for Kolab 3 only use the 
>>> LDAP that comes with Kolab 3. If there is a way I could do this I 
>>> would like some pointers in how this can be done. regards, Borut. -- 
>>> Dedomena - Obvladovanje Podatkov in Informacij, Borut Pinter, s.p. 
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