-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Raj Mathur wrote: > 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
Hi, The only way out is samba4 that is complete AD replacement in Linux. And also look into freeipa though it doesn't provide lot of AD functionality but after samba4 integration within freeipa definitely it will. Also note that samba4 is in alpha stage as of now. Regards Deependra Singh Shekhawat - -- RHCE/RHCSS Certificate number: 804006843818597 Type: pub bits/keyID: 1024D/483B234C Date: 2007/06/29 Key Server: pgp.mit.edu User ID: Deependra Singh Shekhawat (Fedora Project) <jeevanul...@gmail.com> <dee...@fedoraproject.org> Key fingerprint: ED45 62EA A4D7 53FB 44C7 774A D55B F3F0 483B 234C -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAklylkYACgkQ1Vvz8Eg7I0zetQCfdNuOXAuNAxWbTrzryyeb7i6P T2AAniuht7OluiJOCvFi9Qf0NwhHBAdW =GnFz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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/
