On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 10:47 -0500, mikel king wrote: > I am sure this pops up on the list ever once in a while. I have > inherited a LAN that have a large amount of Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Linux > and of course because bean counters have to use financial apps that > only run on Windows. My long term goal is to install some sort of > central management system and really feel that AD is not in my best > interest considering that 90% of the 300+ computers are not Windows > based. Unfortunately the 20 or so Windows machines are running mostly > Win7 and there are some 2k8r2 servers in the mix somewhere. > Does anyone know of any good how-to, best practices/guidelines sites or > documents? > Thoughts? Suggestions?
Well, for the question in subject - "Can Samba + (OpenLDAP & Kerberos) completely replace ActiveDirectory?" Emphatically - NO. At least if your using Samba3. Use Samba4 and you get Active Directory for free. -- System & Network Administrator [ LPI & NCLA ] <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware Developer <http://www.opengroupware.us> Adam Tauno Williams -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
