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| | | <title>Samba Password Synchronization</title> |
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| | | <indexterm><primary>Samba</primary></indexterm> |
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| | | <para>When you store Samba profiles in OpenDJ, Samba stores its own attributes |
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| | | <para><link xlink:href="http://www.samba.org/" xlink:show="new">Samba</link>, |
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| | | the Windows interoperability suite for Linux and Unix, stores accounts because |
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| | | Unix and Windows password storage management is not interoperable. The default |
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| | | account storage mechanism is designed to work well with relatively small |
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| | | numbers of accounts and configurations with one domain controller. For larger |
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| | | installations, you can configure Samba to use OpenDJ for storing Samba |
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| | | accounts. See the Samba documentation for your platform for instructions on |
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| | | how to configure an LDAP directory server such as OpenDJ as a Samba passdb |
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| | | backend.</para> |
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| | | <para>The rest of this chapter focuses on how you keep passwords in sync when |
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| | | using OpenDJ for Samba account storage.</para> |
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| | | <para>When you store Samba accounts in OpenDJ, Samba stores its own attributes |
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| | | as defined in the Samba schema. Samba does not use the LDAP standard |
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| | | <literal>userPassword</literal> attribute to store users' Samba passwords. |
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| | | You can configure Samba to apply changes to Samba passwords to LDAP passwords |
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