Ive looked into this: http://www.likewise.com/products/likewise_open/index.php Seems like a nice setup. Still a lot of command line action going on. http://www.likewise.com/resources/documentation_library/manuals/open/likewise-open-guide.html And im seeing a lot of windows screen shots :| -- Trevor
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Dante Lanznaster <dant...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > >
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