A(nother) client of mine is fighting the old fight of central directory
management. Situation went quickly downhill yesterday when their Active
Directory server's hardware died. I've been originally asked to come
help them integrate it with Linux but instead tomorrow it will be an
emergency fire fight and maybe a different approach should be
considered.
The comapny has a Gnu/Linux-based product and development nodes, but
most of the tech staff was decided to run on windows machines (don't
ask). The question now is whether I help them disjoin their machines
from the disfunct 2003 server's domain and help them work with a bunch
of standalone XPs and a Samba server, or could I use the Samba as a PDC
and build a second one as BDC? I know Samba is capable of that, but I
have never heard about a real world case where that works, and if it
works well.
Also, if a Samba machine is a direcotry server, can I get the rest of
the Gnu/Linux nodes on the LAN authenticate against that somehow or do I
have to synchronise that to a YP map? what's the best way of
synchronising a password change to both the yp master as well as the
Samba's internal DB? I always just change password for both on the
commandline but in a real world environment I suppose there should be a
web interface maybe to do that? should I look at SWAT?
Thanks,
Ira.
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Ira Abramov
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