well, if you were intending on staying with a windows machine for some form of services, i'd highly recommend you migrate nt4 to windows 2003. the path is fairly easy, and upgrade is minimal (depending on what nt4 services you were running). this would also preserve your clients, and user names and passwords. if you're really not concerned about this, then put in a win2k3 domain controller.
if you have any specific questions about nt4 > win2k3, you can contact me off list if you like (or on list even). i rolled out a large scale nt4 > win2k3 migration for the government (with 3 remote sites). user management is definitely a lot easier in win2k3 ad... and ad gives you quite a few things you can do with your windows clients. i've heard of people migrating off nt4 and using their linux server as a "domain controller" so to speak ...but i personally haven't tried it in production. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Bullock Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 8:55 AM To: trilug trilug Subject: [TriLUG] LDAP vs AD vs NT domains vs eDirectory vs RHEL directoryserver We have an old dying NT4 domain that we currently use only for user authentication to gain access to network services. We are long overdue for an overhaul and I am looking for advice on which direction to go. As I mentioned before currently we are using the NT4 domain for user and Windows client authentication, our overall goal will be that all mail (postfix,) linux systems and users, and other possible MS apps be able to authenticate against this. Here are my questions: 1. What could be a drop in replacement for our current NT4 domain? 2. What will give us AD type authentication/access and how easy or difficult will it be to set up, ie is there anything as easy as the click and add feature available in AD? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
