Chris Allen said:
> As an IT person, Active Directory has been a necessary evil,
> regardless if the majority of the server base is running Linux.
> All of the companies I have worked for have had an AD Domain,
> regardless if their products were Unix/Linux-based.
That's a good summary of why I w
Re-sending, the last one got messed up:
I also run a test AD domain at home, but most of my servers are
standalone and don't use an external server for authentication.
As an IT person, Active Directory has been a necessary evil, regardless
if the majority of the server base is running Linux.
I also run a test AD domain at home, but most of my servers are
standalone and don't use an external server for authentication.
As an IT person, Active Directory has been a necessary evil, regardless
if the majority of the server base is running Linux. All of the
companies I have worked for ha
> From: Rich Braun [mailto:ri...@pioneer.ci.net]
>
> I guess I didn't make it clear: this is my home LAN. My domain controllers
> exist solely to support a couple of Windows instances that run software that
> has yet to become available on Linux, and/or devices that want to
> communicate
> with SM
On 8/11/2015 12:13 PM, Rich Braun wrote:
I guess I didn't make it clear: this is my home LAN. My domain controllers
exist solely to support a couple of Windows instances that run software that
has yet to become available on Linux, and/or devices that want to communicate
with SMB network shares.
Edward Ned Harvey wrote about samba4:
> I wouldn't count on it for a production work environment.
>
> I just don't see anything to gain by trying to deviate from windows server.
> Unless you want to support a non-windows organization.
I guess I didn't make it clear: this is my home LAN. My domain
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015, at 09:30 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
> > From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On
> > Behalf Of Rich Braun
> >
> > Any suggestions? Is this known to work? Maybe I should just keep my
> > Windows
> > servers? But they're 6+ years old and
> From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On
> Behalf Of Rich Braun
>
> Any suggestions? Is this known to work? Maybe I should just keep my
> Windows
> servers? But they're 6+ years old and probably fraught with security holes.
I know it's not what you want to hear, b
I've been using Server 2008r2 to run a pair of Active Directory servers for a
few years. TechNet's gone bye-bye so I was hoping Samba4 was mature enough to
serve as a replacement.
Alas, setting up a backup/secondary DC attached to my existing AD servers has
proven difficult. I'm building samba 4
