> [1] This is in reference to something John Tresptra said at a meeting > last year, when discussing why emulating Active Directory is so hard. It > more less is the fact Microsoft took a couple open standards (LDAP, > Kerberos, etc), and added to them, breaking compatability, and forcing > anyone wanting to emulate or interface to reverse engineer. I consider > what Microsoft did a dirty hack because of this >
Kind of the reason that we decided to use Windows servers instead of Linux for PDCs. It was native to the majority of our machines. We have gotten our Macs to use Active Directory (works very well with only one little bug to be squashed) and have plans to tie our Linux machines into it also. Robert LeBlanc BioAg Computer Support -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
