RE: Samba

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>]

On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 09:51 +0100, Robert Mortimer wrote:
> > > Is there any plan to update the Fedora/Samba tool to include PDC 
> > > configuration or LDAP integration?
> > 
> > Could be filed as RFE's in http://bugzilla.redhat.com. Might be quicker
> > if you contribute patches. 
> > 
> I'm looking at options at the moment. I have no python experience and in 
> the medium term packaging the new Idealix management console as an RPM
> may be a better way to go.
> 
> All in all this seem to be a low volume list and a lot of the config tools
> do not seem to have made big strides from RH 9 to FC 4 with the 
> introduction of the LVM tool I thought there may be renewed interest in 
> native fedora tools. 
> 
> (there has been work in areas such as the network config tool and I have 
> no doubt work has been done in others it's just that native config tools 
> does not seem to have the momentum of other areas or the same area in 
> other distros) 

There has been work on tools like Pirut, Pup and discussions on some
fundamental redesigns on the replacing things like consolehelper with
Policy Kit (http://blog.fubar.dk/?p=66). 


> 
> In the end I used the Idealix tools and the smbldap-installer script
> from http://www.vcsvikings.org/docuwiki/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/
> 
> There were however still learning points around ACLs and other areas

Might package those tools in Fedora Extras.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras

Rahul