I'll get right to it. Im looking for information about the stability, security and performance of using Mandrake as a Primary Domain controller, running Samba (would like to use 3.0) and OpenLDAP 2.1.22.
I originally was going to use FreeBSD 4.9 as our platform of choice, but found out that FreeBSD 4.x does not have support for nsswitch, which as most of you know, is essential for using LDAP as the authentication mechanism on the PDC.
FreeBSD is still a possibility, but I would like to explore Mandrake as well.
I should Mention that Red Hat is not an option. Never liked Red Hat and never will. Gentoo is not an option either. Debian, although very solid, lacks updated packages.
With that in mind, i've narrowed down my decision between Mandrake and FreeBSD.
I was hoping to get some feedback from any other people here who are currently using Mandrake as a PDC with Samba and LDAP. I would be very grateful if anyone would care to share their thoughts, suggestions, disappointments etc. with me.
Im trying to find out: Stability: Security: Performance.
Our network is currently 40 users, but that will indeed grow to at least 80 by the end of next year.
The machine:
Xeon 2.8ghz (Room for second CPU)
2gig RAM (Upgradeable to 8gig)
3 36.6 320 SCSI Drives, in RAID 5 (thinking about changing it) also have room for 3 more drives, giving me a total of 6 SCSI drives.
Server will not be running any X windows of course. :)
I look forward to hearing peoples thoughts and suggestions.
Cheers,
Jason
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