On 8/21/05, Gustavo Rios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Excuse, but does samba 2.2.12 supports NT Active Directory? > As far as i know, not. Anyway, correct if i am wrong. >
To be precise NT ( Microsoft Windows NT ) did not have Active Directory. Active Directory came with MS Windows 2000. information is now stored in a directory that can be replicated and for which partial or full administrative control can be delegated. Samba-3 is not able to be a domain controller within an Active Directory tree, and it cannot be an Active Directory server. This means that Samba-3 also cannot act as a BDC to an Active Directory domain controller. http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba3-HOWTO/samba-bdc.html#id2548500 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- As a PDC, Samba-3 is not able to provide an exact alternative to the functionality that is available with Active Directory. Samba-3 can provide a scalable LDAP-based PDC/BDC solution. http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba3-HOWTO/FastStart.html#id2537638 Samba-3 is not, and cannot act as, an Active Directory server. It cannot truly function as an Active Directory PDC. The protocols for some of the functionality of Active Directory domain controllers has been partially implemented on an experimental only basis. Please do not expect Samba-3 to support these protocols. Do not depend on any such functionality either now or in the future. The Samba Team may remove these experimental features or may change their behavior. This is mentioned for the benefit of those who have discovered secret capabilities in Samba-3 and who have asked when this functionality will be completed. The answer is maybe someday or maybe never! To be sure, Samba-3 is designed to provide most of the functionality that Microsoft Windows NT4-style domain controllers have. Samba-3 does not have all the capabilities of Windows NT4, but it does have a number of features that Windows NT4 domain controllers do not have. In short, Samba-3 is not NT4 and it is not Windows Server 200x: it is not an Active Directory server. We hope this is plain and simple enough for all to understand. http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba3-HOWTO/samba-pdc.html#id2543648 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------- Acting as a Windows 2000 active directory domain controller (i.e., Kerberos and Active Directory). In point of fact, Samba-3 does have some Active Directory domain control ability that is at this time purely experimental. Active directory domain control is one of the features that is being developed in Samba-4, the next generation Samba release. At this time there are no plans to enable active directory domain control support during the Samba-3 series life-cycle. http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba3-HOWTO/samba-pdc.html#id2546770 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Or was Smonek referring to Joining an OpenBSD+Samba computer as a client to an NT PDC?????
