I noticed a discussion here about this topic but it wandered from what I need to know.
We are currently runinng a Windows NT Domain, we need to move on to an Windows AD Domain (NT is no longer sujpported etc). A simple option is of course to just put in a Windows 2003 server - but this then means I have to repurcahse access licences for all 200 plus workstations, and in fact we set up a test server and were not that happy with it anyway (too many issues getting it to run). The question is can I go to Samba 3 and completely replace the Windows server - therefor no access licences to worry about. Has anyone done this that can give me amy pitfalls to watch out for? Will I need a separate authentication server such as LDAP or will the SAMBA server do the authentication and user management? I don't expect detailed HowTo's (but would be nice) rather just a yes or no that it is or is not possible. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
