John Andersen wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
>
I've never worked with ldap. Does it download the encrypted password
the way Windows does?
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