Samba as Domain Controller

[hibbert, craig]

I agree. I am a newbie to this environment and I have got samba running as a
PDC, logon scripts, printing etc. I too replaced WIN2000 in favor of
Linux/Samba duo. 

You will not regret it...


Craig.

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg J. Zartman [mailto:greg at kwikfind.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 4:50 PM
To: Adam Lang
Cc: samba-ntdom at us5.samba.org
Subject: Re: Samba as Domain Controller


Adam,

I'm sure you are going to get alot of feedback on this one.  I think Samba
is definitely the way to go.  I started with a Win 2000 PDC and then
switched to Samba.  My network is much more stable now.  I used to have to
reboot my main NT  box at least once a day.  It was almost like windows had
a memory leak or something.  I've had the routing functions moved to Linux
for about a month now and am just getting going with Samba as the PDC.  The
server plugs away, with the CPU usage never getting above about 40%.   This
same hardware was maxed out when it had win 2k server on it.

Here is an article that convinced me:
www.programmers.net/mirrors/lg/issue29/coldiron.html


Greg

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Lang" <aalang at rutgersinsurance.com>
To: <samba-ntdom at us5.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 1:23 PM
Subject: Samba as Domain Controller


> I'm looking into using Samba as the domain controller for my network
(about
> 75 users on windows 9x).
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> How stable and effective would it be for my environment?  Would I be
better
> served just using NT for the PDC?
>
> Adam Lang
> Systems Engineer
> Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
> http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
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