On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Trevor Benedict <mre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We all hate Windows Active Directory, but when it comes to managing users > and resources on disk, and computer configs, its the best. > Yes its a pain to use, but it works for the most part. > Samba 3 works, Samba 4 will be better. But until we have really good easy > to use tools, I just dont see it replacing a Windows Server in a all Windows > office. > I need my Windows minions to remote in and do Windows user/file stuff. > Command line is to hard for them, we need a good solid GUI to manage all the > user/file/system stuff. > All it would be doing is managing text files, and reloading services, but > its very badly needed. > > They show screen shots of OpenOffice, I don't care, show me server stuff, > come on people. > Show me configs and setups of 1 server 30 Windows boxes with 30 users in a > bunch of different configurations, user/file/systems. > > I would love to go Linux as my Domain Controller, but its not worth the > time and energy and headache to do so. > -- Trevor > There's another linux distro that does the same, it's called Turnkey Linux. They have different appliances to do a bunch of common services, and it works well, for the most part. Now with regards to the AD replacement with Linux, well, it's somewhat like Trevor said, but not so easy. Samba 3 emulates a WinNT domain controller which operates basically over NetBIOS. Beginning with Win2k, AD started using DNS for its internal requests/resolutions. That in itself breaks a LAN in a very annoying way, as 2K/XP/Vista/7 stations not only get a bunch of failed requests but there's all sorts of glitches using the network resources. GPOs also go out the door. Sure, price is a big factor, but when you start counting the man-hours to troubleshoot all the little problems and figuring out all the workarounds, your initial savings go out the door in a split second. I do hope that Samba 4 comes out with a usable AD replacement version before MSFT goes ahead and changes the whole protocol again just like they did going from NT to 2000. -- Dante
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