On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Trent Shipley <
tshipley@deru.com> 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 you're able to use Samba as a PDC, and use LDAP(or openLDAP) as back-end
auth, even work with windows 7,
on howtoforge.com will show you hot to setup one, it is with Centos 5.x but,
wit a little modification work with any distro,
good luck
with Centos 5.x
http://www.howtoforge.com/centos-5.x-samba-domain-controller-with-ldap-backend
with ubuntu 7.10
http://www.howtoforge.com/openldap-samba-domain-controller-ubuntu7.10
Walter
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