Put on your suit, you're going to have to dive into the world of LDAP! Dan's right, you will need Samba, set up with ldapsam as the passdb backend, plus pam-ldap for the linux machines.
What that gets you is a Windows 2000 style domain controller that will natively authenticate Windows and Linux client systems, and a method to configure things like desktop redirection, roaming profiles, etc.. While you don't get Group Policy 'push', you can put an NTCOnfig.pol in the netlogon directory that will be executed by the workstation on login. What that doesn't get you is: Active Directory and anything that requires AD to work (Group policy push, Remote installation services, for example). AD is being actively pursued in teh Samba 4 branch, but is not production ready at this time as I understand it. Rubin I believe the Apache directory server does AD to a point On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 13:33 -0500, 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 > [email protected] > (802) 775-0151 > -- Rubin Bennett rbTechnologies, LLC 80 Carleton Boulevard East Montpelier, VT 05651 (802)223-4448 http://thatitguy.com "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too." Voltaire, Essay on Tolerance French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)
