SAMBA PDC

[Stephen]

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 <craigwhite at azapple.com> 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
>
>
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