Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris CIFS and Sun Java Directory Server, a powerful combo or not?

2008-06-14 Thread Ian Collins
Euan Thoms wrote: > Is it possible to replace a Windows AD server with these technologies or is a > Windows domain controller still required? > > That depends what the windoze software requires. AD has features missing from LDAP, so if your windoze application requires AD specifics, you're ou

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris CIFS and Sun Java Directory Server, a powerful combo or not?

2008-06-14 Thread Euan Thoms
Thanks ux-admin. You have answered all my questions well. I know of rsync, best synchronization software I ever used, must look into Mercurial though. I just wanted to know if the technology in question was worth learning about, I spent a lot of time trying to set up an NIS solution and it's out

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris CIFS and Sun Java Directory Server, a powerful combo or not?

2008-06-12 Thread UNIX admin
> My Questions: > 1) Does Sun Java Directory Server replace NIS and > sendmail completely, allowing a user to be created > once with both mail/calendar/contacts and file > sharing/printing schema, under a common umbrella? Sun "Java Directory Server" is just that - an LDAP directory server (used to

[osol-discuss] Solaris CIFS and Sun Java Directory Server, a powerful combo or not?

2008-06-10 Thread Euan Thoms
Just reading about Solaris CIFS. Wow, what a breakthrough, looking forward to testing it over the next few days. Background: I had a go at setting up a mock server client environment with Solaris 10 a short while back and the outcome didn't convince me that Solaris was the way to go. There wer