On 01/23/2012 07:45 AM, Benjamin Shayne wrote:
My company is looking for a good, centralized user and group
management system for a heterogenous (Linux, Windows 7, OpenSolaris)
environment. We're leaning towards Active Directory and we currently
have OpenLDAP deployed with Samba, but here are some of the other
options we're considering:
FreeIPA
ClearOS
Apache Directory Server
Our primary concern is the large number of Windows 7 clients that
would all need registry hacks to connect to a Samba domain. OpenLDAP
and Samba have been difficult to manage with upgrades breaking parts
of the system and with Windows 7 clients need retooling to connect.
I am wondering if anyone can provide details regarding their
experience when faced with this problem.
Benjamin,
Go with AD. It works well for this purpose and you will not be fighting
all the time to try and get MS clients to connect to it. It is pretty
easy to get linux to authenticate to AD (not sure about OpenSolaris).
cheers,
ski
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