Simon Bryan wrote:
The question is can I go to Samba 3 and completely replace the Windows server -
I'm going to stick my neck out and say "Yes".
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 would recommend an integrated LDAP/Samba 3 approach. You need to do some fiddles with the LDAP schema but it all works well.
There are some new-ish OSS LDAP management tools that make all this hum and sing much nicer.
Depends whether you mean a complete AD replacement. To my knowledge, smb3 is still an NT style domain.
Yes, but as of Samba 3, Windows 2000 / XP machines can now join that domain. There is no effective difference from the user-on-a-workstation-typing-word-documents point of view.
-- Del
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