On 01/09/2012 04:48 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
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.
Similar situation here using samba3+ldap for Linux/win 7. We are trying
to migrate from Samba 3 to Samba 4, but the latter does not make it easy
to add Linux clients to the lan. We have it working (mostly) with this hack:
http://linuxcostablanca.blogspot.com/2011/12/samba-4-linux-integration-first-i-want.html
but would like to see S4 released with a bit more help for Linux
integration.
hth,
Steve
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