Is this for a heavy duty production environment? The reason I'm asking is Samba4 (with is in alpha stage) functions nearly exactly like and AD Server (can even manage it using the windows tools) does dynamic DNS updates, and works great... It's pretty easy to setup on CentOS as well..
Thanks, Dan -----Original Message----- From: John Drescher [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2010 8:46 AM To: masatheesh Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Samba] Need suggestion for domain controller > I wish to establish domain controller based on Centos 5.x.I am > considering below setups. > > 1) Samba PDC > 2) OpenLDAP > 3) Combination of Samba PDC + LDAP > > I am confused to select one among above.Can anyone please suggest me? All are valid. I mean when setting up a samba domain with open ldap you should have at least 1 machine that is a PDC and at least 1 machine that has openldap on it. Unless this is a home install I believe you should have at least 2 of each. The choice of how to combine these services is up to the user. For my department (of less than 50 users but 30TB of raid on a 100% gigabit network) I have 3 DCs and 3 openldap servers. At the moment they are PDC + Openldap. Also since I have no user shares on the domain controllers (all data is on dual / quad core domain member servers) I have these as guests under a vps (openvz or lxc). John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
