On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Jim Elliott wrote: > > We are doing a TCO (with Microsoft - please don't laugh - > > crying is allowed) and they are being very adament that Samba > > 2.2 can not play with a Windows 2003 Active Directory > > environment. I found some info that indicated that Samba 2.2 > > can play with a Windows 2000 AD but MS is claiming that Windows > > 2003 AD is different. Can anyone shed any light on this that > > would help rebut the MS claims? > > Lionel: > > /amba 2.2 NEVER worked with Active Directory (AD) on Win2k either. > However, with Win2K you could configure the PDC to tolerate NT servers > in the domain (which Samba 2.2 looked like). Now MS did a major redesign > of AD between Win2000 and Win2003 servers. Samba 2.2 will not connect to > a Win2003 PDC in full AD mode. Now I don't know if Win2003 has the same > compatibility support for WinNT that Win2000 had. If it does, you can > turn on the compatability support and it MAY work. All that being said, > Samba 3.0 (now in beta) has full AD support and supports Win2003 > servers.
Is anyone watching Samba-TNG? See http://www.samba-tng.org/ -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
