On Saturday 17 Jan 2009, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Raj Mathur <r...@linux-delhi.org> wrote: > > Is it possible to completely replace the active directory and > > primary and secondary domain controllers in a Winduhs network with > > one or more Linux boxes? > > > > Excuse my vast ignorance of Winduhs, but do you need both a PDC and > > AD, or are they mutually exclusive? How about encryption and > > stuff? And integration with OpenLDAP? > > If you are using samba only for windows domain authentication(and/or > file/print sharing), then it will be fine. If you want further > services like some access controls (eg. disabling client PCs USB > ports), samba will not be useful.
Actually that's precisely what I'm looking for: access controls and all the other stuff that comes with AD. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur r...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
