Re: [ilugd] Samba, AD and Windows clients

2009-01-18 Thread Anand Shankar
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: On Sunday 18 Jan 2009, Deependra Singh Shekhawat wrote: How about just AD. Can one mimic that using Linux, with all AD features? Say we get rid of Samba 4 (which is not an option due to its development status), is it

Re: [ilugd] Samba, AD and Windows clients

2009-01-17 Thread Naresh Narang
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

Re: [ilugd] Samba, AD and Windows clients

2009-01-17 Thread Arun Kumar Khan
On Saturday 17 Jan 2009, Raj Mathur 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? Take a look at Samba 4, feature set includes Domain Controller, Active Directory. No personal

Re: [ilugd] Samba, AD and Windows clients

2009-01-17 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: Hi, 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

Re: [ilugd] Samba, AD and Windows clients

2009-01-17 Thread Raj Mathur
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

Re: [ilugd] Samba, AD and Windows clients

2009-01-17 Thread Deependra Singh Shekhawat
-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

Re: [ilugd] Samba, AD and Windows clients

2009-01-17 Thread Deependra Singh Shekhawat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: Hi, Is it possible to completely replace the active directory and primary and secondary domain controllers in a Winduhs network with one or more

Re: [ilugd] Samba, AD and Windows clients

2009-01-17 Thread Raj Mathur
On Sunday 18 Jan 2009, Deependra Singh Shekhawat wrote: [snip] If you use samba as PDC , kerberos isn't involved for authentication it's samba that does the authentication stuff. In case of AD , AD uses kerberos. How about just AD. Can one mimic that using Linux, with all AD features? Say

[ilugd] Samba, AD and Windows clients

2009-01-16 Thread Raj Mathur
Hi, 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

Re: [ilugd] Samba, AD and Windows clients

2009-01-16 Thread Vivek Varghese Cherian
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: Hi, 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