On Jan 9, 2012, at 10:48 AM, 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. >
Thanks Adam, I really appreciate the response. I am reading the docs on s4 now. Are there any gotchas that I should be on the look out for? Cheers, Mikel -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
