On Monday 18 May 2009 05:49:32 am Michael Ströder wrote: > Miguel Medalha wrote: > >> I am a bit new to Samba PDC. When a M$ tech article says: > >> "Use Active Directory Users and Computers to create a new > >> organizational unit (OU)". What does this mean in Samba PDC talk? > >> Please translate. > > > > That is LDAP terminology, not MS's. > > Hmm, yes and no. In MS AD a OU means a little bit more than in pure LDAP. > In AD you create a OU > 1. to delegate the administration of a subset of users, groups and > computers and > 2. to attach a group policy to a subset of users and computers. > > This will be relevant for Samba4. > > Ciao, Michael.
Yes, and if you wanted you can do the same things in OpenLDAP using custom tree ACLs, or using Puppet or CFengine get the equivalent aspect regarding GPO for UNIX-like boxes with a little glue code to act on the OU of the user logged in or the Computer account. -- Gary L. Greene, Jr. Sent from: peorth.tolharadys.net 07:55:29 up 14 days, 21 min, 4 users, load average: 0.28, 0.32, 0.28 ========================================================================== Developer and Project Lead for the AltimatOS open source project Volunteer Developer for the KDE open source project See http://www.altimatos.com/ and http://www.kde.org/ for more information ========================================================================== Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
