Just to Echo Justin's comment, the BIG difference between NT 4.0 and Active Directory is the integration/dependence on your DNS environment. In addition to the integration into your other LDAP sources, DNS is an area that you should focus some time on before you create your Active directory namespace.
Based on your environment, I'm assuming that you are ruining BIND for your DNS services. BIND fully supports AD but there are a couple of items that you'll need to address. Cricket Liu has some good info on BIND and Active directory that you can read to help get you up to speed. http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&q=Cricket+Liu+ DNS+Active+Directory Of course, if your not running BIND, you can ignore this email... ;-) Diane -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Salandra, Justin A. Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 6:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD & OpenLDAP AD comes with Windows 2003 you just have to run DCPROMO on the server and be sure that you have DNS configured since AD cannot exist without DNS -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Romeyn Prescott Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 9:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] AD & OpenLDAP Greetings. I have just joined this list and I know next to nothing about Active Directory. We support most of our services with Linux whenever possible and still have an NT4 Domain Controller which will soon be replaced by a Linux box running Samba. The NT PDC is NOT the authoritative source for our user account info, however. That is sync'd with another server via some custom code that was written by one of our sysadmins. My chief responsibility is Computer Lab/Classroom support, and I have been stuck using gpedit at the local level, not having had a Win2000 or 2003 server to play with, let alone AD. That is changing. We have just purchased a Windows 2003 server to meet another need, and I have a couple of questions which I hope are not out of line for this list: 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.) 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?" I thank you in advance for your time, ...ROMeyn -- signat-url: http://www2.potsdam.edu/prescor/signat-url.htm 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/ 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/
