Hi, --- Andrew Bartlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been reading throught the manual that > > accompanied the Samba 3.0(beta) distribution. I am > > unable to understand ... > > "Samba-3 is capable of acting fully as a native > > member of a Windows 200x server Active Directory > > domain. > > However, please be aware that Samba-3 support > the MS > > Windows 200x domain control protocols also. > > At this time any appearance that Samba-3 is > capable > > of acting as an ADS Domain Controller is limited > and > > experimental in nature." > > In a less protocol and more application > perspective, > > what are the features (relatively important) that > a > > Samba (only, if that is possible) DC (with ADS > > features) would be missing? > > The feature people would miss most would probably be > group policies. > > We have good single-sign-on facilities, and good > integration with Unix. > Management tools exist, but you can't use the all > the Microsoft tools in > quite the way you could with native AD. > > > Most of the rest we can do with the NT4 protocols, > which seem to work > quite well. > > Andrew Bartlett
Does this mean that I can replace a DC (with ADS) with a Samba box without Win2k/XP (professional) users, finding a difference (getting around the group policy, I look at, as an administrative difference)? Thank you. Regards, suraj. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba