Re: SAMBA PDC

2010-02-09 Thread wta
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Trent Shipley wrote: > This is for curiosity, I'm not presently trying to implement Windows > networking using a Linux box as the Primary Domain Controller. How > would a Linux PDC emulate Active Directory Services? Do you still need > a server grade Windows lic

Re: SAMBA PDC

2010-02-09 Thread Stephen
what i have been meaning to do is set up a free IPA server and see if i can get it to do its thing, and merge linux LDAP ect for cross platform shenanigans... On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 20:13 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: >> Craig White wrote: >> >>

Re: SAMBA PDC

2010-02-09 Thread Stephen
Actually you can do this. but it is a little strange, and this was under SAMBA 3 I do know you had to create the computer acct first and then join the domain, and it still runs as 2000 level not 2003 or higher. I don't remember any more details than that. On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Trent Shi

RE: SAMBA PDC

2010-02-08 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 05:13 +, Kevin Fries wrote: > Another package I have used in mixed LinuxWindows environment is > GOsa2. > > It uses an LDAP backend, and has a pretty nice front end. not even close to the same type of thing as Active Directory or a Windows Domain Controller. Gosa (

Re: SAMBA PDC

2010-02-08 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 22:40 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: > A little BingO shows that Microsoft changed the name to > "Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications Overview" with Vista and Server > 2003 (?). It is treated as a known package by 2008 (r2) and Win 7. real Linux users don't Bing ;-)

Re: SAMBA PDC

2010-02-08 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 22:24 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: > Having read a little Apple documentation it looks like the Macs will > just know NFS. Can anyone confirm this? yes... Macintosh Finder interaction with NFS has a little latency. Makes me gag every time some Mac person talks about ho

Re: SAMBA PDC

2010-02-08 Thread Trent Shipley
Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 20:13 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: > >> Craig White wrote: >> >> >>> On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 18:38 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: >>> >>> This is for curiosity, I'm not presently trying to implement Windows networking using a Linux

Re: SAMBA PDC

2010-02-08 Thread Trent Shipley
Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 20:13 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: > >> Craig White wrote: >> >> >>> On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 18:38 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: >>> >>> This is for curiosity, I'm not presently trying to implement Windows networking using a Linux

RE: SAMBA PDC

2010-02-08 Thread Kevin Fries
Another package I have used in mixed LinuxWindows environment is GOsa2. It uses an LDAP backend, and has a pretty nice front end. Kevin Fries Sent from my Nokia phone -Original Message- From: Craig White Sent: 02/08/2010 10:07:52 PM Subject: Re: SAMBA PDC On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 20:13

Re: SAMBA PDC

2010-02-08 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 20:13 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > > On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 18:38 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: > > > >> This is for curiosity, I'm not presently trying to implement Windows > >> networking using a Linux box as the Primary Domain Controller. How > >>

Re: SAMBA PDC

2010-02-08 Thread Trent Shipley
Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 18:38 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: > >> This is for curiosity, I'm not presently trying to implement Windows >> networking using a Linux box as the Primary Domain Controller. How >> would a Linux PDC emulate Active Directory Services? Do you still ne

Re: SAMBA PDC

2010-02-08 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 18:38 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: > This is for curiosity, I'm not presently trying to implement Windows > networking using a Linux box as the Primary Domain Controller. How > would a Linux PDC emulate Active Directory Services? Do you still need > a server grade Windows li

SAMBA PDC

2010-02-08 Thread Trent Shipley
This is for curiosity, I'm not presently trying to implement Windows networking using a Linux box as the Primary Domain Controller. How would a Linux PDC emulate Active Directory Services? Do you still need a server grade Windows license running to provide ADS? -

SAMBA PDC was GUI Firewall configuration tools

2009-08-11 Thread Trent Shipley
I want to network using SMB. The network typically consists of a Netgear router, three Macs and one Kubuntu. Sometimes one of the Macs boots into Vista. I want the Kubuntu box to be the PDC. My recollection was that making a *nix box PDC over SAMBA involved setting 3 or 4 configuration toggles.