Gerald Timothy Quimpo wrote:
hello all,
I'm supporting a small company that has a windows 2000 server as their
primary domain controller and file server. authentication is via Active
Directory.
I'd like to convince them to switch to Linux/Samba. Windows *does*
provide some good features, so we'd probably not get rid of it completely.
For one thing, Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition runs on the server
and it does automated updates of all clients, automated scans of all
the clients, etc.
If this kind of setup works fine for your company and cost is not much
of a concern, then you really might want to stick with this. If in case
you really think of switching, Sophos Anti-Virus for UNIX/Linux
(proprietary! Darn! Good thing I received a freebie! :-) might be
worth to look at as a replacement for NAV Corporate Edition.
If I switch the fileserving part to Linux though, can Samba authenticate
to the Active Directory Win2K PDC? or would I have to migrate all
users to Samba authentication? Can Samba handle everything that
the current AD Win2K PDC is doing? i.e., what happens to the
current kerberos based system where permissions and tickets are
all defined at the server?
In regard to authenticating Samba to MS AD, you might want to read this
http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122363,00.html.
hmmm, all of the above is not specific enough. but i don't naman
want to go into too much detail so i'll leave it as is and go into
selective detail in future discussion.
NOTE: i'm pragmatic, not ideological. i'd like to have them switch to
Samba for fileserving because Windows gets slow at times, sometimes
CPU pegs at 100% (around twice a week, 15 minutes or so per instance),
and sometimes when antivirus is scanning locally (on the server),
file serving gets very slow (understandable, it's a function of physical
access to the drives, although since it's RAID-1 on SCSI, you'd think
it wouldn't slow down so much since antivirus could just read everything
on one drive or the interleaving would make drive reading less
noticeable to users).
i'd like to convert to linux completely. but if active directory support is
going to be a bear to convert and maintain (it's very easy now in
windows, MS *does* have ease of use on its side) then i'm willing
to keep that on the microsoft server.
tiger
Charlie Lopez
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