Linux File Server in an Microsoft Domain

[Bryan.ONeal at asu.edu]

The “Why?” is a really good question.  We are using a Small Business Server. 
Microsoft’s online "tech support" and several Microsoft consultants indicate
that the addition of another server into our small business network will require
us to migrate away from the Small Business Server, since it has a built in
single server in the forest rule.  We can add a second stand alone server with
some tweaking, but once you add all the server licensing and CALs, we are
looking at around 5K; 8K - 12K for a full migration.  Mind you this is licensing
only.  On the other hand adding a samba server, to take over the file sharing
rolls of our current server, costs nothing in licensing.  Seems like a better
way to go. 

Quoting Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>:

> On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 14:24 -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> > Bryan.ONeal at asu.edu wrote:
> > 
> > >Ok, I am about to add a file server into our Microsoft domain (I
> hope)  I have
> > >looked at all the read me's and it seems that samba 4 should handle
> the
> > >Microsoft permissions no problem.  I am looking at either SuSE 9
> Enterprise or
> > >Red Hat Enterprise.  Any thought, recommendations, experiences, or
> warnings? 
> > >It's for my work so I am quite nervous.  I real would hat to have
> them drop $3K
> > >just to tell them “Opps! You have to drop another $8K to make it
> work because
> > >were going Microsoft.”
> > >
> > >1) Has anyone ever done this before?
> > >2) What can you tell me about doing it?
> > >3) If I were to choose SuSE vs. Red Hat as an file server that is
> integrated
> > >into a MS Active Directory, which would you recommend and why?
> > >  
> > >
> > I haven't done this (yet). I did see a very simple step-by-step at 
> > http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/sambaserver.shtml
> ----
> 1 - samba 4 isn't available yet - the above link mentions nothing
> about
> kerberos so it has to be worthless when considering joining an AD
> network.
> 
> 2 - official samba docs <http://www.samba.org/samba/docs> see 'By
> Example' gives you a walk through and 'How-To' has all of the
> technical
> data necessary to join an AD network.
> 
> 3 - I haven't done this with AD since I am not a proponent of AD and
> proprietary methodologies that don't extend well or easily.
> 
> 4 - I wouldn't expect it to make much of a difference whether it was
> SuSE or Red Hat or even a Red Hat clone like CentOS
> 
> Lastly, I guess I don't understand the logic of ***why*** you want to
> put a samba server into an entirely Microsoft network as you haven't
> explained it.
> 
> Craig
> 
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