[Samba] Samba 3.0 != ADS, whats missing?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 16:46, Suraj Shankar wrote:
> Hi all,
>   I have been reading throught the manual that
> accompanied the Samba 3.0(beta) distribution. I am
> unable to understand ...  
>   "Samba-3 is capable of acting fully as a native
> member of a Windows 200x server Active Directory
> domain.
>   However, please be aware that Samba-3 support the MS
> Windows 200x domain control protocols also. 
>   At this time any appearance that Samba-3 is capable
> of acting as an ADS Domain Controller is limited and
> experimental in nature."
> In a less protocol and more application perspective,
> what are the features (relatively important) that a
> Samba (only, if that is possible) DC (with ADS
> features) would be missing?   

The feature people would miss most would probably be group policies.

We have good single-sign-on facilities, and good integration with Unix.
Management tools exist, but you can't use the all the Microsoft tools in
quite the way you could with native AD.  

Most of the rest we can do with the NT4 protocols, which seem to work
quite well.

Andrew Bartlett

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