I was going to make the identical suggestion, however, when I went looking on the PADL website, mention of XAD was nowhere to be found. A search of the site turns up references to XAD, however, they either lead to 404s or to redirects to the main product page.
Perhaps XAD is being shelved? -- Tom Thomas A. La Porte, DreamWorks Animation <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Tim Alsop wrote: > Michael, > > I suggest you take a look at XAD (www.padl.com). This is a product that > runs on Linux, and looks like an Active Directory domain controller. > > Cheers, > Tim > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Michael B Allen > Sent: 09 August 2006 20:33 > To: Shawn Wilson > Cc: kerberos@mit.edu > Subject: Re: unix active directory > > Hi Shawn, > > Active Directory is the name of Microsoft's KDC/LDAP server. So there's > no such thing as "Active Directory server on linux". You could setup a > KDC (MIT, Heimdal, etc) or an LDAP server (OpenLDAP, Fedora Directory > Server) on your Linux machine but even if you managed to get them > to work together well, you still wouldn't have anything like "Active > Directory". The closest thing to AD on linux would be Samba4 but that's > not quite ready for production environments. > > Also, unless you have a specific question about Kerberos I think > responses > here will be limited [1]. > > Mike > > [1] I pleased to see that this list is very tolerant of posts about > "Active Directory". Apparently the OpenLDAP-software list automatically > censors any post containing the term (e.g. my sig). > > On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 09:46:47 -0700 (PDT) > Shawn Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I am interested in getting an Active Directory server setup on a linux > (Ubuntu) >> server. I currently just have a samba file server, ntp, and dns setup > on this >> server. I don't have any Windows 2k/XP servers here. >> >> I have found many howtos and other docs on kerberos, ldap, and samba. > However >> my question is where to start. In theory, what I was looking for was a > cookie >> cutter solution to getting an Active Directory server setup on Unix. > However >> aside from that, I was wondering where I should start. >> >> One more point of woe for me is that I don't have a FQDN. I was > advised that I >> could just make one on my dns and setup dhcp to make sure those hosts > used my >> dns and be fine with that. I was wondering if this is possible? >> >> Also, though I have googled and have a bit more than a half dozen > pages along >> this topic bookmarked, any resources that anyone could recommend would > be >> appreciated. >> >> >> >> thanx >> darkhaven (aka - shawn wilson / ag4ve) >> >> __________________________________________________ >> Do You Yahoo!? >> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >> http://mail.yahoo.com >> ________________________________________________ >> Kerberos mailing list Kerberos@mit.edu >> https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos >> > > > ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list Kerberos@mit.edu https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos