Looking for a mentor/adviser

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 09:31 -0600, sean at theparsonsfamily.com wrote:
> Craig,
>  It has never been my intention to deprive anyone of anything, but this
> forum is not appropriate for a project like this as I can't seem to build
> the network on my own, as my failed attempts have shown.
> 
> Your comment about AD is what I thought and have been proven wrong
> numerous times with catastrophic results. Samba in it's current
> configuration doesn't work with Kerberos and LDAP except for NT4 and I'm
> running Server 2003, so it broke the Domain Controllers when Linux
> attempted to join the domain. I have been through the Samba forums and
> documentation and it's not as simple as it is made to look in an existing
> network.
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I will only address one aspect of this... joining a Linux system to AD.

It is done day in and day out by large and small corporations everywhere
and can not and does not 'break' domain controllers simply by joining an
AD domain/forest.

The process of joining a Linux system to AD is essentially the same as
joining a Windows system to AD and if it broke, the AD was already
broken and you just realized the evidence of the breakage. The process
of joining a Linux system to AD involves 2 steps... getting a kerberos
ticket (validation) and then joining. It's benign in concept and
operation. I didn't say that it was entirely simple but it's not overly
complicated either.

Craig

PS - I am a samba team member


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