Re: [CentOS] Anyone using CentOS Active Directory like system?

2013-09-30 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 30.09.2013 um 07:34 schrieb Gordon Messmer gordon.mess...@gmail.com: On 09/29/2013 09:56 PM, John R Pierce wrote: I'd test this over Samba as a AD replacement. but, if your environment includes a lot of windows client systems, and expects to use Active Directory group policies to

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using CentOS Active Directory like system?

2013-09-30 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | I am the IT Development Specialist for a small community college and | our | CIO has asked me to explore an alternative to Microsoft Active | Directory as | we are separating from our parent university and funding is tight so | we | were looking into CentOS with 389

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using CentOS Active Directory like system?

2013-09-30 Thread Rob Townley
sernet.de/en/samba/ seems to have the most promising SaMBa binaries and make an ISO image to download. Described as http://www.enterprisesamba.com/samba4app/ Setting up a new domain without existing ADS:

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using CentOS Active Directory like system?

2013-09-30 Thread Rob Townley
Sorry, ctrl-enter (send right away) won ctrl-shift-v... i used to love MS ADS, but do not love it much anymore and see that there are other tools for the job. There was not nearly enough documentation on which target machines a particular group policy can apply correctly to which version of

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using CentOS Active Directory like system?

2013-09-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 09/27/2013 10:15 PM, Tennant, Jacob wrote: Any advise or suggestions would be very helpful. Samba4 has been offered as an option. However, as far as I know, the packages in Fedora and RHEL are not capable of operating as an AD server. More specific information is here:

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using CentOS Active Directory like system?

2013-09-29 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 6:21 AM, Gordon Messmer gordon.mess...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/27/2013 10:15 PM, Tennant, Jacob wrote: Any advise or suggestions would be very helpful. Samba4 has been offered as an option. However, as far as I know, the packages in Fedora and RHEL are not

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using CentOS Active Directory like system?

2013-09-29 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/29/2013 5:51 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: If you don't need Group Policy support, you can use FreeIPA to authenticate Windows and Linux guests: http://www.freeipa.org/page/Main_Page noting that FreeIPA is built around the 389 Directory project the OP already mentioned... I'd test this

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using CentOS Active Directory like system?

2013-09-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 09/29/2013 09:56 PM, John R Pierce wrote: I'd test this over Samba as a AD replacement. but, if your environment includes a lot of windows client systems, and expects to use Active Directory group policies to closely manage those windows systems, none of these solutions will come

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using CentOS Active Directory like system?

2013-09-28 Thread Steve Thompson
On Sat, 28 Sep 2013, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: Have you looked into Samba 4 which provides build for Centos and it seems it does support AD as DC: One more vote for Samba4. -s ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using CentOS Active Directory like system?

2013-09-28 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 09/28/2013 01:41 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: Greetings, On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Tennant, Jacob jacob.tenn...@pierpont.edu wrote: were looking into CentOS with 389 Directory Server. Any advise or suggestions would be very helpful. That is a choice of course. Have

[CentOS] Anyone using CentOS Active Directory like system?

2013-09-27 Thread Tennant, Jacob
I am the IT Development Specialist for a small community college and our CIO has asked me to explore an alternative to Microsoft Active Directory as we are separating from our parent university and funding is tight so we were looking into CentOS with 389 Directory Server. Any advise or

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using CentOS Active Directory like system?

2013-09-27 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Tennant, Jacob jacob.tenn...@pierpont.edu wrote: were looking into CentOS with 389 Directory Server. Any advise or suggestions would be very helpful. That is a choice of course. Have you looked into Samba 4 which provides build for Centos and