Theoretically yes but:
- the official stable Samba 3.x can mimic only NT-style domains
- Win7s are no longer able to join NT domains by default (registry hack
is needed)
- replication using OpenLdap backend could turn into a nightmare (as a
standalone server will Samba do fine though)
So I would say - if your time is cheap and you are fancy playing with
it, then go for it and try it.
Otherwise - purchase a license for Active Directory controllers and
forget about all problems.
Ondrej
M.Saeed Ansari wrote:
Hello ,
I'm a student in Shahed university in IRAN .
Now I'm become a member of our uni IT-Center .
We are going to have an organized network with a en-bloc user
authentication and proxy server.
In comparison between MS AD and Samba , i want to choose Samba server
( cause of my belief in Open Source ) .
Our plan have a Forest(root : shahed.ac.ir) and trees for faculties
(like : eng.shahed.ac.ir , maybe have child ) and maybe for
internet-site we may have a new forest (we should have trust between
these domains ).
In every site we should have DC and SQUID Proxy server ( for control
and sharing internet in the best way ) .
note : all of our clients have windows XP or se7en .
My questions are :
can we completely handle our plan with Samba server ? , for
replication and trust what we should do ? we should use openLDAP for
our plan ? what is your suggestion for what we are going to do ? witch
distribution of LINUX is appropriate for our plan ?
Best regards .
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