The question is can I go to Samba 3 and completely replace the Windows server - therefor no access licences to worry about. Has anyone done this that can give me amy pitfalls to watch out for? Will I need a separate authentication server such as LDAP or will the SAMBA server do the authentication and user management?
I work for a school which runs Samba 3 without issue (in fact the only issues were from an upgrade from Samba 2 to 3). In fact we've been using samba as our main server for 2 years now. LDAP makes more sense and gets a little closer to the real AD thing (note that smb3 is not an AD server - to my knowledge).
I don't expect detailed HowTo's (but would be nice) rather just a yes or no that it is or is not possible.
Depends whether you mean a complete AD replacement. To my knowledge, smb3 is still an NT style domain.
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