Dave, I believe that you should first ask what Windows 2000 Active Directory features you must have before seeing what Samba can do for you. You may find that you have little or no need for most of the features of AD.
If all you are looking for is a server to provide you with file shares, domain authentication and printer sharing. Then Samba is perfect the way that it is. You can create and manage a number of user accounts and groups, control their access create quotas for users via the built-in Linux/UNIX tools on whatever OS you choose. If you say what features you are looking to emulate, I am certain that more then a few of us can give you the right answers or point you in the correct direction. Regards, Robert Adkins II IT Manager/Buyer Impel Industries, Inc. Ph. 586-254-5800 Fx. 586-254-5804 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 2:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Robert Adkins Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba newbie question... On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 04:40:20PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can Samba be used as a complete replacement for a Windows 2000 Active Directory server? I have some vague notion that this can be accomplished by using a combination of OpenLDAP, Samba, MIT Kerberos, and the OpenAFS file system. To say the least, the descriptions I have found have been vague as to whether or not I will be able to completely replace the functionality of an Active Directory server with a similar setup. > > If this is possible, could someone point me to reasonably good documentation on the subject? > > Thanks so much. > --David >From the number of replies I received on this,(none) it seems fair to assume that this is not entirely possible. Anyone able to tell me what the current limitations are? I would really like to set up a system using samba as much as possible for domain and file serving operations. I suppose I can supplement samba with a win2k server if I have to... ;-) Thanks, David -- |\_/| (\ /) ) (//^\ ( M ) (_)_(_) -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba