Quote Originally Posted by bhahn
Hello,

anything new on this? We are also very interested in using Open-E DSS with an external LDAP, but the external LDAP documentation appears to be a bit holey. Is anyone out there who has some experiences with using external LDAP and Open-E?

Regards
Bernhard Hahn
Bernhard,

we're using an external LDAP setup (OpenLDAP2 v2.4.9) with DSS (5.0.DB49000000.3278) in connection with NFS and SMB access. Seems to work fine, although we suffer from a rather slow DSS web interface, I hadn't accounted that to using LDAP until I stumbled over this thread.

(Unix and SaMBa) users are in "ou=people,<our LDAP root>", Unix groups in "ou=group,<our LDAP root>". SaMBa groups are in "ou=samba,ou=group,<our LDAP root>".

SaMBa hosts are in "ou=samba,ou=hosts,<our LDAP root>".

Our (only handful of) MS Windows clients are members of a SaMBa-based domain, all SaMBa accounts are stored in the LDAP tree as well, in the branches mentioned above .

We have set "base domain name" in DSS's advanced LDAP configuration to "<our LDAP root>".

Regards,
Jens