what i have been meaning to do is set up a free IPA server and see if i can get it to do its thing, and merge linux LDAP ect for cross platform shenanigans... On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 20:13 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: >> Craig White wrote: >> >> > On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 18:38 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: >> > >> >> This is for curiosity,  I'm not presently trying to implement Windows >> >> networking using a Linux box as the Primary Domain Controller.  How >> >> would a Linux PDC emulate Active Directory Services?  Do you still need >> >> a server grade Windows license running to provide ADS? >> >> >> > ---- >> > yes, or if you are really adventurous, you could build a very alpha >> > version of Samba 4 which is still too green for packaging yet for any >> > distro. >> > >> > Craig >> > >> > >> I'm taking that as "yes" you can run a SAMBA server as a Windows PDC, >> but there's really no point because you still need Windows Server 2nnn >> to host the active directory. >> >> I have 6 physical machines I would like to network. >> >> * OS X Snow Leopard on late model iMac. >> * OS X Snow Leopard on newish Macbook. >> * Dual boot: OS X Snow Leopard/Vista on late model Macbook. >> * Ubuntu 9.10 desktop (favorite computer) on older Dell Inspiron. >> * Ubuntu 9.10 netbook (used as an e-reader) on HP. >> * Ubuntu 9.10 host/Win7 guest/XP guest on Lenovo desktop (possible new >> favorite computer). >> >> What are some options? > ---- > Active Directory is an enhanced networking schema that is hardly useful > for non-Windows systems since the primary benefits are kerberos to aid > SSO and Windows Group Policy Objects but the GPO and SSO really only > relates to Windows machines anyway. You can use Samba as a server and > provide CIFS (Microsoft's Common Internet File Sharing) services without > Active Directory. > > Unless you have a slug of Windows systems to maintain or are running > Exchange Server (which requires AD since Win2K3 Server), there's hardly > any incentive to run AD. > > That said, considering that most of your systems are Linux, I would > consider using NFS and installing the free SFU on the Windows system > (Services For Unix) which is available from Microsoft and it's free. > > Craig > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss