On Jan 9, 2012, at 2:34 PM, Natxo Asenjo wrote: > 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
Thanks Natxo, I am not sure if this would be a fit for us as we only have one Red Hat based Linux box. The majority are FreeBSD or Debian. Still it is an interesting prospect and I really appreciate your sharing it. Cheers, m -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
