On 01/09/2012 05:18 PM, mikel king wrote:
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
Samba 4 serves win 7 clients out of the box. Join the domain and you're
done. The biggest gotcha for us was adding Linux clients. Please let us
know if you find an easy way.
Steve.
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