Re: active drictory alternative.

[Dan Coutu]

While I've not tried to do exactly what you describe I have done something that's about 90% of the way there. Here are the tips that you need to investigate for this: Setup an LDAP server. Configure PAM (the Linux Pluggable Authentication Module) to use LDAP as the source of account information. Configure Samba to also use LDAP for login authentication. Configure Samba to use login scripts. Configure Samba to be the Master Domain controller for Windows. Configure Samba to provide shared printers. Configure Samba to provide shared folders. Configure Samba and Windows so that the networked home folders are where you want them to be. That should get you most of the way there. What's missing here is anything that is Active Directory specific. Hopefully you can find that elsewhere. Dan Bjorn Behrendt wrote: I am soon going to need to either replace my Windows 2003 active directory with 2008 server or find another solution. I would prefer to use a linux server for authentication but I will need the same configuration features. I have been looking for a good guide to setting up Ubuntu server or CentOS as an alternative to Active Directory, but have not found one yet. The features I want to see. 1. works with Windows clients. 2. Network Home folders (does not neessisarly need to hold profile information) 3. Logon scripts for clients. 4. shared printers 5. shared folders. 6. can log linux boxes in with the same credentials and logon scripts. -bj Bjorn Behrendt IT Coordinator Mount St. Joseph bbehre...@msjvermont.org (802) 775-0151