On Thursday 01 March 2007, Hans van der Merwe wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 01:13 -0900, John Andersen wrote: > > On Wednesday 28 February 2007, Hans van der Merwe wrote: > > > I'm not sure about AD, no-AD? Do I need it? > > > > I have never found a use for AD or even Windows Domain controllers. > > Certainly never for a network that small. > > > > Even where they are claimed to be of use (really large installations > > where people want to log into their desktop from any workstation) they > > don't work well enough for anyone to actually DO that. So everyone > > graduates from the Microsoft course and runs out an defines > > Domain controllers and Active Directory, only to burry themselves > > in a maintenance nightmare that doesn't meet its very reason for being. > > I feel the same. > What do you recommend?
For the size of installation you mentioned: Just Samba and cups on the server. A properly set up cups/samba combo will do it all, even provide drivers for every printer on your network. If it were considerably larger, I might look into ldap, but not till it got big enough to justify SLES, because SLES integrates ldap so well you never even need anything else. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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