After listening to the recommendations of the list, we're going to wait until a production-ready release of Samba 4.0 is available. While we considered AD, the licensing fees for Windows Server 2008 R2 were prohibitive for our small domain and we really liked what we've seen of Samba 4.0.
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:16 AM, Michael Gliwinski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday 23 Jan 2012 15:45:23 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 >> > > FreeIPA supports both Solaris and Windows clients ( > http://freeipa.org/page/Windows_authentication_against_FreeIPA ), there's also > a step-by-step guide on implementing it in a mixed environment (see HowTos on > documentation page), it's easy to get started so you could always give it a > try and see if it works OK for you. > > > -- > Michael Gliwinski > Henderson Group Information Services > 9-11 Hightown Avenue, Newtownabby, BT36 4RT > Phone: 028 9034 3319 > > ********************************************************************************************** > The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. > It is intended solely for the addressee and access to the email by anyone > else is unauthorised. > If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution > or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited > and may be unlawful. > When addressed to our clients, any opinions or advice contained in this > e-mail are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing > client engagement leter or contract. > If you have received this email in error please notify > [email protected] > > John Henderson (Holdings) Ltd > Registered office: 9 Hightown Avenue, Mallusk, County Antrim, Northern > Ireland, BT36 4RT. > Registered in Northern Ireland > Registration Number NI010588 > Vat No.: 814 6399 12 > ********************************************************************************* > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ -- . ..: Benjamin Shayne _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
