How should I get the W2k support in a production environment?
Gerald Carter
gcarter at valinux.com
Thu Sep 28 03:13:42 GMT 2000
Markus Reimer wrote:
>
> Should I try to port samba-tng to aix (wich now
> doesn't compile) and use it in a
> production environment?
No. Help get the necessary code in the HEAD
branch.
> Should I try to port part's of samba-tng into samba-head?
Yes. See above.
> Should I convert the userdatabase to ldap using
> NDS and have W2k servers as PDC/BDC/ActiveDirectory
> servers?
NDS is very expenseive (at least the quotes for Solaris
version).
> Should I use NT4 servers as PDC/BDC's accessing
> the NIS database using some sort of NIS client?
Not aware of any versions of this. Not for adding
an LSA at least. Do you know of one.
> The timeframe for this is that I will have to
> implement the correct solution during october...
Eww...ummm...porting the code to HEAD would be
my choice. But then that's pretty obvious.
Cheers, jerry
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