Trust relationships, sort of

William Stuart william at hae.com
Thu Jun 18 21:15:38 GMT 1998


Gee, Wouldn't it be great if SAMBA could implement ActiveDirectory and
release it before NT 5.0?

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William Stuart  (william at hae.com)
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On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Jean-Francois Micouleau wrote:

> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 07:05:42 +1000
> From: Jean-Francois Micouleau <Jean-Francois.Micouleau at utc.fr>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <samba-ntdom at samba.anu.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: Trust relationships, sort of
> 
> On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Joseph Cheek wrote:
> 
> > trust relationships are such a hassle with a large number of domains.  is
> > there any type of multi-domain relationship model we can implement that's
> > better than trust relationships?  i get the feeling that ms just made trust
> > relationships as a bandaid to the entire single-signon/single point of
> > authentication problem.  there have got to be better solutions.  any ideas?
> 
> take a look at NT 5.0: www.microsoft.com/NTServer/Basics/TechPapers/default.asp
> 
> They will do hierarchy relationships using Active Directory. Now guess why
> samba will support LDAP ? Active Directory is using an ldap server as
> backend.
> 
> 	J.F.
> 
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