[Samba] Can Samba + (OpenLDAP Kerberos) completely replace ActiveDirectory?

2012-01-09 Thread mikel king
I am sure this pops up on the list ever once in a while. I have inherited a LAN that have a large amount of Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Linux and of course because bean counters have to use financial apps that only run on Windows. My long term goal is to install some sort of central management system

Re: [Samba] Can Samba + (OpenLDAP Kerberos) completely replace ActiveDirectory?

2012-01-09 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 10:47 -0500, mikel king wrote: I am sure this pops up on the list ever once in a while. I have inherited a LAN that have a large amount of Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Linux and of course because bean counters have to use financial apps that only run on Windows. My long term goal

Re: [Samba] Can Samba + (OpenLDAP Kerberos) completely replace ActiveDirectory?

2012-01-09 Thread steve
On 01/09/2012 04:48 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 10:47 -0500, mikel king wrote: I am sure this pops up on the list ever once in a while. I have inherited a LAN that have a large amount of Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Linux and of course because bean counters have to use financial

Re: [Samba] Can Samba + (OpenLDAP Kerberos) completely replace ActiveDirectory?

2012-01-09 Thread mikel king
On Jan 9, 2012, at 10:48 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 10:47 -0500, mikel king wrote: I am sure this pops up on the list ever once in a while. I have inherited a LAN that have a large amount of Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Linux and of course because bean counters have to use

Re: [Samba] Can Samba + (OpenLDAP Kerberos) completely replace ActiveDirectory?

2012-01-09 Thread steve
On 01/09/2012 05:18 PM, mikel king wrote: On Jan 9, 2012, at 10:48 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 10:47 -0500, mikel king wrote: I am sure this pops up on the list ever once in a while. I have inherited a LAN that have a large amount of Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Linux and of

Re: [Samba] Can Samba + (OpenLDAP Kerberos) completely replace ActiveDirectory?

2012-01-09 Thread Charles Tryon
The other gotcha is the question of, how comfortable are you (or perhaps more important, your BOSS) with running software that is still technically in Alpha release? This is exactly the question I'm trying to resolve with the head of our IT department. This is a complicated question, since the

Re: [Samba] Can Samba + (OpenLDAP Kerberos) completely replace ActiveDirectory?

2012-01-09 Thread Natxo Asenjo
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:47 PM, mikel king mikel.k...@olivent.com wrote: I am sure this pops up on the list ever once in a while. I have inherited a LAN that have a large amount of Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Linux and of course because bean counters have to use financial apps that only run on

Re: [Samba] Can Samba + (OpenLDAP Kerberos) completely replace ActiveDirectory?

2012-01-09 Thread mikel king
On Jan 9, 2012, at 2:34 PM, Natxo Asenjo wrote: On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:47 PM, mikel king mikel.k...@olivent.com wrote: I am sure this pops up on the list ever once in a while. I have inherited a LAN that have a large amount of Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Linux and of course because bean counters