Out of curiosity, why would you want Active Directory to not be "the" source or user accounts and then want to sync with openldap? Can you describe the goals a little more and why you're wanting to put Active Directory into your environment in the first place? What planning have you already done?
Al -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tomasz Onyszko Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 9:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] AD & OpenLDAP On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 09:11:57 -0500, Romeyn Prescott wrote > 1) Does Active Directory come with Server 2003, or is it some sort of > "add-on" which must be purchased separately. (Microsoft's web site > seems, in at least one location, to indicate that it comes with it, > but I just want to be sure.) It is built-in feature of Windows Server - You are establishing server as domain controller by running dcpromo.exe on the server > 2) We have a relatively new OpenLDAP server (also running on Linux) > which also mirrors our account base. Given that we do NOT want the > Windows 2003 server to be "the" source for our user accounts, is it > possible to tell it to synchronize with an OpenLDAP server? Is such a > task "trivial," "complicated," or "impossible?" Depending on the approach: - You can write some scripts which will "monitor" OpenLDAP and will create users in AD - You can use products like for example MIIS 2003 to synchronize OpenLDAP and AD database. There can be more choices in this topic. -- Tomasz Onyszko - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.w2k.pl List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
