Okay guys, we discussed this a bit when I was first asking for advice
about my Wiki server, but I don't really even know where to start.
I've tried asking our server guy, but he's VERY pro-MS, so his answer
to everything is, "Run it on a Windows server."

My problem is I don't know ANYTHING about LDAP or Active Directory, so
the docs about implementing it are incredibly confusing.

I've switched from MediaWiki to DokuWiki, for a few reasons. It stores
everything in text files, so, in theory, I could have multiple
read-only parsers, it has much nicer table syntax that's actually
readable from the raw text file, it allows direct linking to samba
shares with standard syntax (\\server\share), Flash is easily
embeddable, etc.

I want our existing users to be able to log in to the Wiki with their
existing credentials, but I'm not interested in server console logins,
though if they come as part of the package, I'm not going to be mad or
anything.

I also want to be able to set up groups, but very simplistically,
basically, an isIT group that gets technical stuff and passwords, and
a notIT group that does not.

Here are the documents I've found about LDAP and DokuWiki:

http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:auth:ldap
http://wiki.splitbrain.org/sambaldap
http://wiki.splitbrain.org/ldap

I do have a couple of specific questions:

What's different between AD and general LDAP, specifically as it
pertains to this application?
Where does Samba fit in?

Also, what specific questions do I need to ask the big MS fan? All
I've been able to get out of him so far is that we have AD on
lafourche.k12.la.us.

Thanks a million.

Joe

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