On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:47 PM, mikel king <[email protected]> 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.
for the unix side of things I would recommend ipa from redhat (you can read about it in http://freeipa.org). It accomplishes for linux/unix most of what AD does for Windows. For the Windows side, use samba4. To get best of both worlds, use a kerberos trust between both realms. IPA is also available out of the box for the redhat clones, obviously. As this is not a topic for the samba list, I will leave it at that, but not before saying that it really rocks. -- natxo -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
